SETTLED AT LAST.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2002, 9 March 1914, Page 5

SETTLED AT LAST.

SYDNEY MEAT STRIKE,

AGREEMENT SIGNED BY ALL THE PARTIES.

UNION'S PLEDGES*

B7 aWecraph-Pfess Aesoclatlon-Oopyrlent Sydney, , .March 7. The- strike settlement has been 'signed by the Premier, the' employers, and the employees. It provides.for work to-be resumed forthwith, on the .rates of pay existing' on February 1. An application for variation of the existing award has been referred to an expedited sitting of, the Board of Appeal, and is now before the board. The question in dispute as to whether the working hours shall be forty-nine- or fifty will bo settled forthwith, on tho basis of a week of forty-nine and' a half hours. No victimisation is to occur on either side. * 1 Tho union pledges itself to refer all future disputes to an industrial tribunal without cessation of work. Failure to. absorb all labour immediately is not .to be regarded as a breach of faith on the part of the employers. The settlement applies to" all allied trades'. ' '. (Rec. March w B, 5.5 p.m.) ' Sydney, March 7. Alb the butchers' shops aro opening to-morrow. Both sides claim a victory —the mastors a moral victory, and the men because they secured a reduction of hours from 56 to 49J. IVJelbpurne, March 7. An> agreement between the master butchers and the men lias been signed, and operates from April 9. £35,000 LOST IN WAGES. (Rec. March 9, 0.25 a.m.) Sydney, March 8. The butchers who went on strike lost £35,000 in wages, .