BELFAST DISPUTE
FREEZING WORKERS TO RESUME TODAY. FINDING OF DISPUTES COMMITTEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 18. Work will be resumed tomorrow at Borthwick’s Belfast works. This agreement was reached this morning and later in the day the chairman of the Disputes Committee (Mr S. Ritchie) announced his finding that the third chain which the company proposed to establish was a separate unit and that men from the existing chains could not be transferred it. This ruling, thechairman explained, prevented participation by the men employed on the additional chain sharing in the pool earned by the existing two chains. The contention of the company when it advised its intention to introduce a third chain was that six men employed last season as extras on the first two chains should be employed so that reliefs should be available at any time for No. 1 and No. 2 chains, which employed 35 men each. "The decision of the committee, said Mr Ritchie, "does not dispose ol the question of spare workers who are necessary for the efficient working of the industry, but that matter is being discussed by the parties concerned."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 7
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189BELFAST DISPUTE Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 7
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