WORK AND WAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2020, 4 March 1907, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

SETTLEMENT OF SLAUGHTERMEN’S DISPUTE. WORK TO BE RESUMED THIS MORNING. At a late hour on Saturday night a settlement of the slaughtermen’s dispute was arrived at. During the afternoon there was a largely-atten-ded meeting of sheepfarmers, at which the position of affairs was fully discussed and' lines of action decided upon in case ol failure to arrive at an early settlement. A final offer to the men was decided upon, and eventually tho stage was reached when a committee of tho men were given power to act on behali of the others, and not merely to negotiate and refer back to general meetings. The terms accepted were those submitted in writing by the employers, and in which after a good deal oi opposition and protracted discussion the men concurred, it being after 11 o’clock on Saturday night before the arrangement was agreed upon. The effect of it is that the men at both works start this morning, an agreement being signed that they will abide by tho decision of the Arbitration Court, which is to bo retrospective. In tlie meantime, to prevent the men being on an inequality with tho North Island works they will be allowed 23s per hundred.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. Mr. J. Mackay, Assistant Secretary of tho Labor Department, and T. W. Stringer, Crown Prosecutor, interviewed Mr Ilall-Jones this morning on strike matters. The charges against the Islington and Belfast hands will be heard in tho Arbitration Court on Tuesday next. Tho Ashburton strikers will bo before the Court on Wednesday. A meeting of the Union to-night will elect officers authorised to confer with the employers. The general position of the strike is unchanged. INVERCARGILL, yesterday. Killing is going on at all the Southland works under private agreements, the strikers receiving 25s per hundred from clients. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. . A meeting of the Slaughtermen’s Union was held last night, but the result has not been divulged, while the position as regards the strike is unchanged.