Big Dispute in Meat Export Trade Ahead

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7281, 7 October 1933, Page 7

Big Dispute in Meat Export Trade Ahead

Victorian Trouble Spreading To Other States

EMPLOYERS TAKE ON VOLUNTEER LABOUR

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Recoived Friday, 11 p.m. MELBOURNE, Oct. 6.

Members of the export section of the Meat Industry Employees’ Union decided not to resume work under tho terms and conditions offered by the employers under tho team system of work.

This decision, and the action of the employers in engaging volunteer labour, means that a big dispute m the meat export' trade, which is likely to involve members of tho Meat Industry Union in other States, and also members of other organisations engaged in tho transport of sheep and lambs, is now inovitablo. Wool and Basil Workers’ Strike MEN ADHERE TO THEIR DEMANDS SYDNEY, Oct. 6. The efforts made to settle the wool and basil workers’ strike have failed. Tho men decided, at a mass meeting, not to resumo work until the employers met their demands. The strikers disregarded the decision of the Board of Reference, which instructed them to return to work; and they refused to accept the advice of their representatives on the Board, that a settlement be accepted. Five Yards to Close Received Friday, 11 p.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 6. With the refusal of the wool and basil workers to return to work, the employers announced that the live yards affected would close to-morrow. There seems little likelihood at present of the trouble spreading to other unions.