SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 8

SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE

THE ; POSITION LOCALUY ' ; / \ At present' there 'are 'no new. develops merits dicoverable • locally. There appears to be no likelihood ol the- works >at Petone and' I^gahauranga re-opening for the present, .for two- more dr less obvious reasons. The eyes of .the big companies are .at present . .focussed ' on. .the East Coast ' sheds; several 6f which have ! resumed butchering.' ' So ' .far, how ever >' ths strikers have remained stubborn,, the new butchers being all "free" labour. One sheet that lias begun again is,' it isunderstood, engaging 1 Maori t slaughtermen . ' '.'..•" . GISBORNEWOKICS RE-StART.' APPLICATIONS FROM THE : . . . „ .COUNTRY. -, . , ■ (bi telegraph— ps^ss ; association.)' '■ ■ ' GISBORNE,- This Day. The' Gisborne ,• Sheepf armers,' .works re- , started .this- ,- morning ,with sixteenbutchers, and there were nineteen when, the men knocked off for lnnch.' There 1 have 'been numerous enquiries for work from the country. 1 - The men "employed . are, all, new-haqds. , ■_ » , , t The Tokomaru works' started .to-day, with a dozen men on the board, and it is' expected there will be' a full' board k>--morrow. „->,. RESUMPTION AT OtfE OF THE • . • NAPIER WORKS. • r s . .NAPIER, .This. Day. Work was resumed -at" the North ' British Freezing Works this morning,, but' only a -moderate amount was; doing.- So far as. can be • ascertained six killers are at work. - ' The . strikers did not make, an appearance, and everything' is going on quietly. • LATEST DEVELOPMENT AT • WANGANUI. '•',/- V J ABATTOIR liIEN- STRIKE. (by. telegraph^ rtaEss 'Association*) t , • - -WANGANUi, This. Day. ,'• The latest development' in the slaugh-.' terinenV dispute ' is \ a' -strike ,of. the. butchers who .undertook, a co"upJO'of ; dayV ago-to do- abattoir ' killing for*',lo.cal're- ", tailers for. public consumption: ■ They intimated that they were) prepared -to do abattoir work only .on-, their own 'terms,., which- w«re mot acceptable to -the company, which offered an increase!" rate of : 27e J 6d-' per 4.00 for both 11 sheep. 'ahd. lambs. The .company, i 8i 8 u° w iiiyitjngap' ' plications- for .t he -work; 'giving 'prefer-, ence to,olfl employees. ...••. .. A meat' famine \vill""not occur,. as ,tb,e company has- already 'made arrangements' for ' killing sufficient abattoir, meat ,for local- requirements, and hopes «o6n>to"hV in v 'a position to recommence killing for the ,<■ export. trad,e. . " . ' r .- . . , ■".