STRIKE OF YARDMEN.
DEMAND FOR INCREASED PAY. At midday ycstorday the yarders employed at the Wellington Moat Export Company's works at Ngahauranga ceased work,. m an indication to their employers that they wcro prepared to insist upon their demands for an , increase of 3d. per hour on their present shilling rate of wages. As it js tho business of the yarders to get the sheep from the railway trucks to the slaughtering pens, tho cessation of yarding? operations dislocated tho work of tho slaughtermen and tiie butchers, who went homo about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. . The yarders also' asked for waiting time during periods of unavoidable idleness during working hours, tind at a conference which took place between them and the manager (Mr. Poster), these matters were discussed, without anything being.arrived at. It lias 6ince been reported that the men were all dismissed. There is no yarders' union. Nothing definite has been announced with regard to the company's views on the disagreement with tho yarders.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1333, 10 January 1912, Page 4
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166STRIKE OF YARDMEN. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1333, 10 January 1912, Page 4
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