THE STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1653, 21 January 1913, Page 6

THE STRIKE.

SLAUGHTERMEN CEASE WORK! QUIET "AU REVOIR." AT PETONE & NGAIIAURA^GA. 'AU slaughtering.of sleep,at. Petone and Ngahauranga. .works ..qeased .-yesterday af''••.\tsMHK)ti4V^ero^wiisi ßpjlißtarl)anc!e'or,.es- ' oitemfcnt ,of anyi' sort.' - The-, men' simply l . "cut out" tho sheep in tho pens, , finished 'j. their.^.iv'orlc' as. they - any . other '{■ •working;; dajy' ajnd ljjft the .-.taking. ■ tfieir gear .with; them..: '. ; Thero> will be - work for somo -of ■ tho .' other employees 'to-ilay l clearing things' up '. and -putting tho works'into 'shapo'.for; ' y closing' [com-; : : paratively. few';, .weekly'' ivho;; arp; .' . kept on 411. tho ycar'iouhdj'.'there will : be; ■ no. work until"stockJbegins"to'"coino'".in again from tho country. . i .'lt is' rather.hard, fortune;for.,the Wel- .' :' lington'companies that jVellington should be, as a. southern union. official.said, "the in'. thOisturbl»We,,:for at; . no,shedsJiri;l(le\y; Zeijlanil.'can ipen..earn ' so much .money over:such: a long season ..-under such ; good- conditions.,*: ( The. aver- : ■ " age by;'butchers-during the, ' best and: many earn considerably more. - And the ' nomadici < unmarried 'men usually go over 1 ■ to .Australia -.and" catch -tho season /' thero : . after . 'tho, i'-.'best-'vVof-' the i';.lis' over.'■ 'The' '.married men get' other : work,.nearer' at' 'Hand. ~'oi.-Durmg:-thoV season .here both -works are Uliy;:suppliect"withVsheep, and .'thero- ' is little;or„no.broken time.,,.The-,:m'en'9 ■■■■ qunrt'ers: hero'ard Veir'.wMl''c'quipped. ■ -.At.'fchd Gear Works, 'for there .. ire bath-rooms for- tho; men at tho works, ' [ and thero are rooms in ! which; their work-1 lug clothes, , which are:'always-wet-in' the . ' flSvtin\e, >.rp dried:." •■■'Seeing'that, most.of'the other works': fa, ■ Ihe.North Island are to run until the enil '..-.■rf-'thtf the''Gear■-.Company "asice'il. their meh^whother. they.'.would'.go:on kill.-:! Ing, until' the same .time, if„■ sheep were v; : v''.brought.in. ,Tho mon held.van impromptu; mooting on the -board at knock-off time-, . 3n Saturday, anddecided: to cease w?rl:' on Monday,.: as previously, arranged. ',| Nothing is'apparently, tairig : done about j the. conipan'es'' last, offei 1 of 275. Cd. per rIOO-carcasses;-.'. So fari'-as-caii'?b'o'leained; .tho Wellington .'Union daes not. propose i s'to ?.take''a ballot, ! :.on:,-.the'.' question ' of: ■whother-it shouldihe accopted-or noti The . indications are that : they propose toehold out for ; their original , demand.-of ,303.'(3n tho other, hand,.tho: rejeotion. of;-the. first . -QBfiX-'flt, jqis many!; . members of thy union.- ■ These member;;, as the .ballot on tho questjon: showed, ate' ' ' in I ,'a minority, but. they'certainly do not want a- 'strike-now!' • Mr. M.-'J.' JReardcn,. secretary'of the union; said to a'DosriNinN '■TeporterV'yesterday-jiha.t'ithejfipht: would; <• ■ i 'They.. wtftild 1 ask''fo'r. ,: ti6/;assistancd: from: outside. .. ' 'V'-;' ' The stoppage, of -the supply/of frczen ment-''will .' affect- the' big intcr-ocean steatrie'rs ;.''with : refrigerators' . which:,;..coma to the.v.-Now;Zea-- ■ land.. coa.st. tl'or ; -some of '. the., year : ; "they : take'.Beat- : as'iohe'; ! of ! thei;principal c> : '-items in their. 'the ttade nJay. proVe unprofitable if -tho is "in-. ..terrupte'd for any "length of 'tiracMt',will> . "be" fully , : "4' v monthi"ihowevcr,'.beforeV the. :. ' Cshortage.."is ..felt, -because "ali"' tho-'-.'works Ti'ivT"CgMdrdearof.:'meat': in"th'«r,Tsfcres,) .-'Wid' it is mtfre - than -'likely- that 1 ; some, . works .vnlbbe running, before tho lapso'of