"SLOW-STROKE” METHODS
NINETEEN MEN DISCHARGED AT GEAR WORKS, At the Goar Meat Company’s works at Petono on Saturday sixty slaughtermen killed over 2000 sheep and lambs up to 4 p.m. Nineteen men wore discharged at noon for not complying with the conditions laid down by the company. These conditions provided that the men were to receive 12s 6d and 15s a day until the period of their instruction had been completed. The men were then to work on tally. Those slaughtermen discharged were found to bo capable of killing twelve sheep an hour, but were working, it is alleged, on what is known as the “alow stroke” method, and only slaughtering six sheep an hour. AT NGAHAURANGA, At the Ngahanranga works on Saturday one man was discharged for refusing to carry out the terms of employment. He, with several others, was put on tally work and declined to ‘‘scrape back” the veins of a carcase which he had dressed. He was thereupon told to cease work. Four others followed his lead Under the' old agreement it was always understood that this was part of the slaughtering work, but under the new agreement it is desired that this work shall bo specified.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 24 February 1913, Page 7
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201"SLOW-STROKE” METHODS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 24 February 1913, Page 7
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