THE SLAUGHTERMEN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1638, 3 January 1913, Page 4

THE SLAUGHTERMEN.

NO , CHANGE IN POSITION. • : In a ■ fortnight from to-day men employed by the Wellington: Meal Freezing Conipaniefl Jfill be freed ;frt)m their legal Obligation to work tinder ,tho terms ' filed by the Arbitration CoUr( Award of throe years , ago. The award ex. pires oil January 17-iiett,' and 'Cm the unions, have oil cattcelled their, registm tion uflder the Act, it is impossible foe; any hew, award to l>e .made. The men have ItlAdjS clfiiniS Which iare W>t been the ; toiiipatii&'have offers ed other«termS; fthieli the men have.re* fused. Those, are the overt faet-s; what atcpsi either 1 eido ih the 1 dißagreoment M taking ih view of a possible'"industrial etrueglo is. no); discoverable. Tho probabilities aro that their'different lines of action have Wetl decided upon, and that they await deifelopments or ,opportunity. . The works at NRaliauranga and" Po« tone aro now fairly running, but the com. plement of butchers on the Aboard at either works has not been made \ip to maximum; strength yet. Those who 1 are at work art fully employed for full days,- &nd th« companies have hiul no reason, to Aom-' plain that tho men aro not doinr theii best to handle tho stock offering. As pre. viously stated,, fi mony> »>f 1 th« slaughtermen Who usually fcottio here froni Australia' for tho season havo not corns this year, preferring, to stay at homa rather than fabe proifpCehve wouMe hero/ This circumstance is at present otirtainly limiting the eupplv of wxirkera iti WeK linfrten, and presumably In other! part 4 Zealand. il .v, '