SLAUGHTERMEN ORGANISED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 591, 20 August 1909, Page 6

SLAUGHTERMEN ORGANISED.

■ I X:- .■ ', .♦ . ■;, :■•■, •'■';:;;.''■.. • ■. .. FOUMATION : 6I?.:A.N'.Z. UNION.;.; • , The. certificate of,' registration and. incorporation of- the New Zealand Slaughtermen's Industrial Association.-: of Workers has.just .been issued- by tho Labour 'Department. 'The' above .result has been ._aohiev«fl;'.after , .18 .months' work. . A conference was held ; in Christchurch in 1908, but wh«h tho 6chenie as outliijed by delegates was .submitted , to'the-various;'unions; Canterbury and Soutllland•.failed' to■]endorse it..-' Another conference 1 was! held .'in,!| Christ, church, early' this, yeai - ,,''and a schojlio was drafted, wluchi was .approved., by. the/whole of tho unions of,the,.Dominion ,whenj^it,was snemitted- to : them. /:Tho ~unions affiliated are;— Auckland, Poverty Bay,. Wellington; Cantorbury, Otago,;and Southlnnd,'and tho effect of tho federation's, tliat;negbHations:for fresh terms: with tho employers in every ' freezing works jn New'.'Zealand aro controlled'by the federation. Now Zealand is, as it wcro,' a chess board as far as ; slaughtermen , arcl concerned," and the management of tho,board will •; be'- Controlled from oho.'.' centre.' : The centre'.of control. for' tho time being is , to'., be Wellington, although'. Mr, ■ R. Brben, of Dunodin,"has[been.secretary.of tho movement, and has carried out ..the wholo. of the:preliminary arrangements. The number of persons who will be subject to the influence of.the'fcderiition is comparatively small—probably under 1000, but when tho' far-reaching power; of the jr.ganisation! is considered the lntsiU trouble lae only to'be remembexodu .•' ■' >