WORK TO START IN CANTERBURY

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

WORK TO START IN CANTERBURY

!"* HINT OF EXTENSIQN QF „,,„,. TROUBLE^ • , itfHE WATERSIDeTwoRKERS MAY REFUSE TO HANDLE MEAT. "" - CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. "No development of importance in the. slaughtering strike was reported this morning. _ There is an impression that the companies will start work this Week with) spree labour, but unionists are confident *tiitil 'few experts mil offer, their Ber-' The applications for re-registration are. interpreted merely as a move to prevent) the formation of an independent, union; under the Arbitration Act.^ • • ', A hint of an extension 'of trouble is contained in a statement oy_ dhe unionist to-day, that the watersiders will probably refuse to handle meat slaughtered "toy fr;ee' labour, FEELING IN NORTH OTAGO. "SErASOTTS KILLING "SHOULD HAVE 3, a ,,,,r'tt BEEN ASSURED. ■•'sFATIMERS^ FINANCIAL REGULA- , TIONS. 0 AMARU, This Day. Questioned as to whether the- men were likely *tw accept the 27s 6d offered by ■ the . companies, a local member of the .Slaughtermen's Union replied that he did "not think so. Neither did he think the ■Btrfchers would adopt aggressive action .•an- tHe- event of 'the boards being manned *y/&th tt&Q labour. ,; "Let the free labourers free labour as long as they like," said he. _ "Most of ihe butchers up there .(meaning apparently the Wellington butchers), nave accepted other billets, and I' suppose" we •uall^do.the.sanxe^hiere.'.^We lived before, ■we" went to this game, and we can live again now." t , ■ ' The-Mail,Btates ; thereis a. widespread ieellrig' Among' the farmers in this district that the companies should have . .made such arrangements 'with t the men, *evsi to the extent of giving 30g per 100, i j as' would have assured the season's killUogl being carried on without./interruprthm of a strike. Ac it is. the lamb bust1 jiese is paralysed, and at -a time when .maliy farmers were relying on "the disposal of their lambs ito 'meet financial ob j ligations. Three yea;rs ago' when tfie Tate w&& raised to 25s per hundf ed, lafclambs >vere selling at lls to 12«; to-day tlie -■price of fat lamb is 18s, but it must not \*e 'forgotten that it .costs more mrw; to

produce a fat, lamb. Ewes are scarcer, and, therefore, dearer, land is dearer., arid, labour dearer, FREEZING WORKERS' MEETING ' Hastings men to remain At WORK. {BY TBIiEOBAPH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.) , . HASTINGS. This Day. ' -The Freezing' Works Industrial Union of Workers held it meeting last night, when 200 were present, including practically all the workers other than slaughtermen from local works. < The meeting was not open to the press. Iniormatioh slip-! plied by 'the secretary this morning is) to the effect that as insufficient notice' of the meeting had been* given no resolution was passed, but the position was fully discussed, and it was agreed fhpt the members of the union should Temain at work irrespective of the fact -that the killing, boards are manned by free lab- ' ourers.