STRIKE OF BUTCHERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 50, 22 November 1919, Page 6

STRIKE OF BUTCHERS

CARTERS REFUSE TO CARRY MEAT. By TelcitraDli—rress Association. Auckland, November 21. There was a new development in the butchers' striko to-day, cartel's outside tho butcher trade refusing to wirt meat supplies from tho city aboard vessels m port. This affected tho supplies for tho Homo liner Arawa to provide for the voviiufi from Auckland to Wellington. The chief steward and his staff carried sufficient meat aboard Indian fashion, pausing now and again for a rest. Ihoy earned aboard man J" Hundreds of pounds of meat. , ' , Tho carters also refuse to cart meat from the station for tlis Auckland City Meat' Company. Tho butchers, however, ha.ve reopened two more shops. The public is taking kindly to frozen meat,, and is surprised to find it so rnuoh like newly killed. Later. •The prospects arc slightly inir,roved. The master butchers met to-night and agreed to hold a conference with the union the Conciliation Commissioner to preside. The date of the conference has not been decidod on, but it tvill piobtiulj bo held on Monday.