SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 541, 12 February 1913, Page 5

SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE.

FULL BOARD AT GISBORNM STRIKERS RETURNING TO WORK [IIY TKI.KI.'UU'M.-rltl.SS \ SSI II 1 ATION.]. Gisborne, Tuesday. A full board w;n at the Kaiti works to-day. A number of freezers, who bad absiaiuod from work in sympathy with butchers, have gone back, and labour circle;? recognise that the slaughtermen have been beaten. CONCESSION TO KKJW LABOUR. lliiHtini-M, Monday. In appreciation of tin', aland taken up by the llaivko',". Hay Freeizng Works Industrial Union of Works in connection wit!) the stnke, Nelson Bros., Ltd., of Tonioana, Thus. Borthwick and Son", Ltd., of I'akipaki, and the North J»rjtißh Froo/anc: Co . of Napier, have decided to adopt, tho rates of pay provided for in tho award now operating at Gisborne,, This decision, which w;>,s conveyed ±q the secretary of the llawko'a Bay Union by Mr Nelson, manaein;!; director of Nelson Rroi?., amounts to an increaHO.ii) war; en of id percent, to all members of the union, and "will affect about LM>O employee;! at Tomoana and laO elsewhere. The new rate of pay will come into force aa from Monday next, hut tho other provisions of the pre.seiil. award will bo adhered to until the present agreement expires in 11KU. UNIONISTS AT WORK, Gisborne, Monday. Tho Freezers' Union to-ni|.;!)i; decided to adhere to '.he former decision not to strike. Most of the unmarried i slaughtermen are loavins>;, or have left, tho district.