SLAUGHTERMEN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1652, 20 January 1913, Page 7

SLAUGHTERMEN.

FACING' THE-tILTIMATUM,

No new development ocourred In tie slawhtermon's dispnto on Saturday. J. EeonJ.on, secretary of tho stated on Saturday that ho had im! unions advising them of tho offer in ado by the comJtwl'n'i ln 9y"MDff as to whethw an"S; to bo taken. Ho stated tim Sv l'i° J t % Tar ' l from Gisborne, to nil «£™ tho -union had concluded i eab tlio Woingawa Comc«ive' iL f W inn metl wero rc " cane 30s. per 100, was incorrect.

GRAB WORKS, PETONE. WnlS U?li -jPi mcn ''iploj'cd at tho Gear ' 5 - wl<l a meeting on SaturB*ST3A£'g& X „r

EVELINE WORKS CLOSE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) • . Oamaru, January 18. Consequent on the stoppage of Win* cKh°M* f U p ng ceflsed ot tllo Christfc rc k- eat Company's Evelino. Works' ?. S A ®J?ht. It is not thought probable before the matter of pay 13 finally settled. The men instrucUonT futur<! ' and mvftit WAINGAWA WORKS.. <By Telffraph.— Special Oorr«ponflent.) rpi, ' . ■ , Masterton. January 19. .Thesis no truth! in tfi© report that iint Farmers ' Meat' Company tMmM nCo ri „ ® demands of tho slauglu tormen. There is a general feelinu 1 H>nf v l6n l ' Tvl P refuse to accept the 2?s, Gd. 1 All k? * offered by the companies; *iwT , bu^ lu ß lias temporarily ceased, and the - shortage of grass resultingfrom WnS 13 cau^ stoclc t° 80. back. Tho Wa.mgttwa_works are very busy just now, ,e n6O unt 'l' of^ho . CIIRISTCEURCII MEN CONFER. ■ [ (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' ; No ■ Chrfstchurch, January 19.' .No developments of importance" took , ? co c !\ Saturday. iho publio generally ' s fh, a nv klng V A of tK ,? n i and tho POM'bilitios that'may uriso unless.somo satisfactory arrangeinent. is arrived at between , the parties o/th^non?h. PreSoUt liM ° aDd ftol cud Clifford (chairman: of direc- ™ f V} 0 Canterbury Fiozen Meat Com- ! pany), Mr. L. Macbeth (manager of the saino company , and Mr. W. Murray (manager of the Christchurch Meat Company) returned on Saturday from' Weiuiigton after attending the conference of representatives of the meat' companies of tho Dominion on the 'subject. \ A reporter, on inquiring if there wero any further developments, wris informed that tho. statement mado by Sir George Clifford in Wellington covered the situation up to tho present. ; r of tho Butchers' Union' ,(Alr. C v Were) also seen, and asked what tho probabilities wero of the men accept--1?®/. l S ' P cr 100, but he replied that ho was not in, a position to ,give ony information on" the, subject'. Asked I what would bo dono if the men declined the offer of 275. fid., 110 said that lie had dealt with that' phaso of the subject in the statement given by him on Friday.' Ho stared .that, at tho meeting of tlio union, ho intended to ask for authority fa> Rivo a statement to the newspapers in reply to Sir George Clifford., : A. meeting was Held on Saturday nighty but a statement ro what transpired will not bo given till to-night. ,1