COOL STORE WORKERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1941, Page 7

COOL STORE WORKERS

DISPUTE AT AUCKLAND I — i WILL NOT ASSUME SERIOUS ASPECT. POSITION OF SLAUGHTERMEN ■B.v Telegraph—Press Association.! AUCKLAND. January 7. Step work meetings were held toda\ by employees of the freezing works a. the Westfieiild. Southdown and Horotiu districts to discuss the position concerning the e.'oi store workers in Auckland who were disnvssed I .st Fr. ti-.y after refusing to work on Sundays. Tile holding i.l the mcvtii i*s hucreated ...” mi.•;, ,<.> inv quar . lets that the o s-tile may assume .- m<>re serious aspect but this was <LsCoui'led ttmighi Ly an authoritv a cluse touch with the position. Hu sum there . s Title likelihood of this w ■ entu ting. Al Westfield Freezing Works on Monday nmimmg killing operations were heel >;;i j.;>- about TO minutii while the si lightermen discussed the position of the dismissed employees, who are members of the New Zealand Fr<-<.?.-:.; Workers' mid Related Trades Industrial Union, in common with al. emplovecs in freezing Wi-rks in the Auckland district. An ofiicial staled that the meeting ■.■.;>> o f a routine lure since union members were in volved in the dispute ~ud it wa> competent for the sl.-ugnwrmen to review .he position. It was stated that delegates were appointed to confer with delegates from

! the other works, including representa- | lives cf the chamber hands. A furj ther meeting was to have been held :• i the Westfield works .it lunch time io- ‘ day. but it was cancelled. j Work was held up on the slaughter- ; ing floor at the Southciown works f<».

! almost an hour today for a sunilm ■ reason. The men conferred with umor. jofliciuls after the lunch interval, ana lit is understood the appointment of ! delegates was discussed. ! A more extensive stoppage occurred | at the Horottu Freezing Works, a meetj ing of 375 employees lasting from 12.3*0 i until 2.10 p.m. li was subsequently ! stated that delegates were appointed :to attend a conference m Auckland i tomorrow. The conference will take I the form of a district union executive ; meeting mid its findings will be placed I before mass meetings of employees at [ the respective works. It is understood , the case of the dismissed chamber ! hands will be fully stated and discussed. It was learned that in the past few. days five members M the Waterside • Workers' Union were dismissed by the employing authorities for refusing) to handle produce brought out of the! cool stores in Auckland by men en-[ gaged in place of the dismissed chant-1 ocr hands. Work is proceeding without interruplicn at Hie two e<.><d stores involved I in the dispute,