SLAUGHTERMEN’S STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 31, 5 February 1913, Page 6

SLAUGHTERMEN’S STRIKE.

FREE LABOR EVERYWHERE. (Per Press Association.) Hastings, February 5. Messrs Borthwick and Co., Pakxpaki, report that the works resumed operations to-day with a board consisting of six free labourers. Applications are coming freely, but the hrm are only engaging men who have experience with the knife. They expect twelve men to be working to-mor-row. The men are not making large tallies, but the dressing is up to the average standard, only one or two carcases being rejected as unfit for export. Speed in killing will increase every day. The firm are thoroughly satisfied with the work done. Nelson’s (Tomoana) report that work resumed this morning with twenty-eight men, who will only work a three-quarter day until ,the men got accustomed to the task. The killing has been done entirely to the firm’s satisfaction, there being no trouble of any kind. The North British (Napier) reports that the twelve men who are on the board are a little bit alow, but are doing very satisfactory work, and everything is going on quietly. The general opinion among the employees here is that the local slaughtermen were not dissatisfied, and would never have been in the strike but for outside influence.