THE SLAUGHTERING TROUBLE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1913, Page 2

THE SLAUGHTERING TROUBLE

TEN PER CENT. RISE FOR FREEZERS. (bt telegraph— press association.) HASTINGS, 10th February. The butchers manning the ' board at Tomoana put through 1000 sheep on Friday, and 450 on the half-day on Saturday. Thirteen butchers are slaughtering at Pakipaki, &hd applications for hooks continue to come in freely. The firms speak in high terms of the work of the new butchers. Every day sees a marked improvement. In appreciation of the stand taken up by the Hawkes Bay Freezing Works' Industrial Union of Workers in connection •with the strike, Messrs. Nelson Bros., Limited (Tomo&na), Thos. Borthwick and Sons, Ltd.- (Pakipaki), and the North British Freezing Company (Napier) have decided to adopt the rates of pay provided for in the award now operating at Gisborne. This decision, which was conveyed to the secretary of the Hawkes Bay Union by Mr. W. Nelsonjfmanaging director for Nelson Bros.), anrounts to an increase in wages of 10 per cent, to all members of the union, and will affedt about two hundred employees at Tomoana and 150 between the Pakipaki works and the works, at The Port. Tjhe new' rate of pay will \ come into force as from Monday next, but other provisions of the present award are to be adhered to till tlie agreement expires in 1914, CANTERBURY WORKS. r CHRISTCHURCH, 10th February. Humours that were, flying about to the effect that the freezing works at Belfast and Islington would open to-day or tomorrow appear to have no foundation in fact, and a reporter who went out. this morning to see if there was any truth in the statements was told that the freezing works' officials had received no intimation in regard to this matter from headquarters, and, so far as they knew, there was small prospect of killing commencing for some time yet. There is little doubt that, up to the present, the supply of labour coming forward is small— at any rate it is. not sufficient to warrant the opening of ' the works for the reception of stock"— but the probability is that, directly the supply is sufficient, work will be started even, if the output is small at the beginning. FORTY-ONE MEN AT KAITI. GISBORNE, 10th February. At the Kaiti Freezing Works to-day there was a board of 41 slaughtermen, and five more will commence work to-, morrow. The Taruheru Works started today with 14 men. The Freezers' Union to-night decided to adhere to their former decision not to strike. Most of the unmarried slaughtermen are leaving or have left the district.