RE-REGISTERED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1913, Page 8

RE-REGISTERED

Slaughtermen under the act - AGAIN ****** . . . . .** w FREE LABOUR" AFFECTED, t' - : ' J^A toew move, begun some two or IJKree weeks back, was concluded (in one #haee) late yesterday evening, when rej^gistration 'under the Conciliation and /tSrbitration Act "was granted -the fol-, dSwing slaughtermen's "' unions : — Wei-, j||hgton, GHsbbrne>: .and , Canterbury.' S^rk affirmation was the result of apj&Sications tfprwarded to the Labour Saturday, Ist February. OTficial notification (which was expected WSsterday forenoon) was made, this knfomnig. p tiay is included in the Wel'^angton distinct. It is understood that $£c other ' three unions — 'Auckland, ii&ago, and* 1 Southland^-wjll make apIjjpcation almost , immediately ; they Save not y4t dond no. •plThe course taken was decided on tiiveral wc#b since. •"',• The necessary )»feetmgs w^pre held, document^, presfflred and guly signed, and application : ,lwde. The whole procedure was quite im order— 'tfiat of unregistered workers jisfekiflg registration— and, as before, thertgrtightermeji are sti.ll immune from the. *M*ike penalties of" the Act, though they '#111 still be strikers. fpfThis latest development has resulted |3 % ittrther complications, especially from , h ', 0 compan^s' viewpoint. In a' sense it 111 1 s cut th^" ground from under their 3 i st. Theyjcart proceed in the direction ;# obtaining! a new award through a spe'isj d sitting »f the Court, but that means /*( somewha^ protracted proceeding. ProIwbly befor# such a consummation could jfa/a reached ihe strike will nave been de.jsib!ed one t^ay or the other. While nd definit* information is to 'Ijftnd on the* point, it is understood (and looks obviofcs) that the Slaughtermen's 'federation jtOok this step with a view to wevenfeing the companies using their in■Sßence in tfie promotion of a new union • Ajfmposed of "free labourers,." Theretwre, until 4he slaughtermen come into slEbe, the sheds will continue to be work- '^ by "fffil^ labour," New unions will, tim ail impossibility. And, so,' fair as can! w« ascertained, the companies are impoApparently they can do nothing ?|fr the direction referred to now/ Cer'^'inly, the Act gives them no hojpe 4£pt, as« has been stated, the possibility^ '^ py?ffeeddng to an award, jjtl^r. M. J. Reardon, secretary of the tftßttogfatermen's * 'Federation,', has left, <'(Wellnf|K)n on a mission to the East ■*Coast (North Island). He expects to ibe^abSemV the best 'part ! of a week. It ■os, stated -that he, will act as the Federa*ion's~ ?ep?esentatiye in the way- of hardening up the men— killers and others. Registration will be Sought by the (Federation when the unions are all once again joined up. A representative -of one of the comtp&riea stated to-day that a rumoUr is current in Masterton to the effect that the agreement arrived at between WaiMgawa, and the men still remained unwgned. t