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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 36 No. 12. 6 June 1973

Ngauranga Must Not Close

Ngauranga Must Not Close

Photo of the Ngauranga meat works

The Ngauranga meat works should be running as a co-operative, owned and operated by workers and fanners, in a few months time.

On May 24 Swifts New Zealand Limited, the present owners of Ngauranga, announced that the works would close at the end of the killing season because the company could not afford capital improvements needed to meet hygiene and pollution regulations.

But the Ngauranga workers did not accept these reasons. They pointed out that Deltac International, the American owners of Swifts, has been withdrawing from meat processing all over the world, and that the closure of Ngauranga was simply part of this policy.

The Ngauranga workers reacted to Swifts' announcement by proposing that the works be turned into a worker-farmer co-operative. Already this proposal has received the support of the trade union movement and farming organisations. The Government is also believed to be sympathetic to the idea.

Last Friday Ken Findlay, Chairman of the Save Ngauranga Meatworks Committee, addressed a meeting of students about the workers' proposals. As a result of the meeting the Students Association has pledged its full support to the meat workers.

After the meeting Salient talked to Ken Findlay about the co-operative, and the broad political, social and economic implications of the scheme. The interview is printed on pages 6 and 7.

Below: This previously unpublished photo of Leon Trotsky (without mitre) greeting Vatican delegates to the 1938 conference which founded the international Trotskyite movement was stolen from the Trotsky archives at Harvard University. See page 3 for Salient's pertinent comments on five of his ten local followers.

Below: This previously unpublished photo of Leon Trotsky (without mitre) greeting Vatican delegates to the 1938 conference which founded the international Trotskyite movement was stolen from the Trotsky archives at Harvard University. See page 3 for Salient's pertinent comments on five of his ten local followers.

Cartoon of 'Africa' holding a man with a top hit in its fist

In this issue:
  • 2/From the courts
  • 3/We explain one or two things about the Trots.
  • 4/Zimbabwe guerrillas strike out at racist regime
  • 6,7/Ken Findlay talks about the future of the Ngauranga freezing works
  • 8/Dirty Dick Nixon's political tricks
  • 12,13/Terry McDavitt on 'The Greening of America" 20/Racist professor beaten up in London

Plus records, books, centre spread of comix, the usual shit stirring and lots more!