SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8744, 19 February 1907, Page 2

SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE.

Per Press Association Wellington, February I^, At a meeting 'of directors of Wellington Meat Export Company to-day it was decided' to interview the Minister' of Eabofit this afternoon and to ascertain whether the Government' proposed to dp anything to rplioyo' the position. Thy suggestion' that ’the Governnienf 'should endeavour to get butchers to take thy placps ci'those men who have left fhej company’s Ngahariranga works' wag brought under the Minister’s notice, The directors of the gompany wpre syjj fbrtpd py the representatives of vprigui employers’ associations in tho city, The proceedings were not open to the prpss but it is reported that the Minister pro? mised to bring before Cabinet flip suga gestioi} that Government Bhpnfd endeavour to hud sufficient slaughtermen fp allow the company bo proceed with ifg exporf business, ‘ - . CifKiSTeHUEeH, February 18, A reporter, who made enquiries, to-day, at the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company’a office, wag informed that the slaughtermen’s strike is not likely to extend to the Belfast hands, who are members oi the Union, and fully cognisant of vfhat a step would mean. xareora strikers are casual workers and non-unionists. At the office of the Christchurch Meat Company. it was appertained that there hks. been’ h<s furthag de\-elopm en t in the slaughtermen’s trguhlQ so far as Canterbury is concerned. As fat as can be learned the employees at Islington and Smithfield are not feeling dissatisfied. The Men Resume Work. Wellington, February 19. The strike is ended and the men have resumed work at the Meat Export? Company’ r g works. The company : i.4 giving 23s per 100. Mr Poster, manager for the Meat Export Company, says that this crisis has proved the Act to bq absolutely valueless bo far as employers are concerned. Sr J. A. Millar stated in regard to the request made to him in Wellington that Government should import labor to assist in overcoming the difficulty caused by the strike in the Wellington Meat Company’s works that the proposal placed before tho Minister by the directors of the company and other representatives of employers was that Government should find butchers to take the place of those who had left the company’s amploy and if necessary import them. Mr J, A. Millar consulted his colleagues and decided that Government would not take action so far as the importation of men was concerned, but could only find employment for men who had registered with the Labor Department as seeking employment. The conduct of the men who wept out would Mill have to be reviewed by the Arbitration Court.