WORK AND WAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2021, 5 March 1907, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

THE LOCAL AGREEMENT. Tho following is tho agreement signed locally, and on which operations at the freezing works were resumed yesterday : “Gisborne, March 2, 1907. “Referring to the interview of Mr G L. Sunderland with tho men engaged at the Tnruheru works and to Mr 'Thomas Jackson’s letter of this morning’s date to tho manager of the Gisborne Shoopfarmers’ Freezing Works: AVe agree to modify tho terms pieviously offered to tho men to tins extent, viz., that the men and the companies agree loyally to abide by '.lie decision of the Arbitration Court as to the rate to be paid, whatever that rate may ho. That in the meantime and in order that the men may bo under no inequality as compared with the men engaged in other North Island factories which have continued work, tho two companies will pay tho men on resuming normal continuous work at the rate of 23s per hundred, pending decision of the Court, all formalities to be waived to bring the application before tho Court.”

Press Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. A largely attended meeting of slaughtermen approved of the log providing for increased pay and betterment of general conditions of labor. Details will not bo available until the log lias been submitted to the employers. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. There is no change in tho position of the strike. Delegates appointed by tile men on Saturday evening are meeting to-day and going into details of the men’s demands. The companies report that so far as they aro concerned nothing has transpired. The union, now' properly constituted, is in w'orking order. The officers aro meeting and conferring. The Inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals visited Belfast to-day to watch the methods of amateur slaughtermen. He found the work wms done in an amateurish way in cases, but was satisfactory generally, with little needless suffering on the part of the animals. Men have been appointed to oversee and instruct the now hands w'here needful.

DUNEDIN, yesterday.

The hands at Burnside freezing works resumed work this morning. INVERCARGILL, yesterday.

Stops have been made to form a Slaughterman’s Union for Southland TIMA-RU ,last night.

There is nothing fresh to report regarding the local strike. A few men on day wages are killing potters and preservers at Pareora. There is nothing doing at Smithfield.

Citations were issued to the local men to-day, but the date of hearing is not yet fixed. INVERCARGILL, last night.

There have been lio significant developments in the strike in Southland during the last few days. The men at Mataura finished killing special lines for owners to-day, and left tho works. The company intend to spend this week overhauling the machinery. In the meantime they say advertisement for men is receiving a fair response, and they hope to resume regular killing operations with new board oil Monday. The Ocean Beach men finished special killing to-night.

The AVallacetown men are still killing for owners on the same conditions, but expect to finish to-mor-row morning.