THE SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43065, 5 March 1907, Page 4

THE SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE.

B , The. rate'.r of .pay received hy Canslaughtermen under . the preawards is 20s pea* hundred,’ and, ■Hainan cam kill and dress from eighty PteCo ninety sheep a day. Though this fe; may seem to figure out at very good ; teartiingg, the men place in’'the .opposite balance the temporary nature ->,-of the work; which only lasts from ? ; December till May, it® dangers, and 8 Ahe frequent incapacitation- caused by §duts and poisoning. The work is /;|ihfigljilysystematised, to prevent lots 'gheing mixed, and! this. Would make it : more difficult for untrained hands to H'qaa3y--«0!a operation®. The increase asked for 'by the men. amounts to a A lisle •of from 2|d to 3d a sheep, or rvA-120hh part of a penny per pound on y a sixty pound (sheep. Most of the when th'a season is finImhied here, go to Australia to take up 't the :sraanei work thea-e. In Australia!, it y/is' stated, they are already paid 25s . ! | pea* hundred. With the breakdown of !■ the slaughtering operations, hundreds Bbf 'sheep would perish of starvation ■Vend thartet while waiting for the knife R-Sheep farmers would suffer hieavily ■i-from the first, and workers an every ■ other tradlei that is concerned; with lyjpreduQtS'of. the -sheep Wouldibie thrown Lilesis hut of. .empljaymenh Thie Bgdpughtermen’s assistant® would first of NB be thrown on their “own resources. V ,fe fellmiongers and workers oh the | -lins would be robbed of their ocou'L V.Ppioh, the-freefcers would be idle, atod r: ’: aridl.other employees of freezing - factories would also be of werih In one w'ay and another Hjflt is pointed out several thousand B; workers in -Canterbury Would .’he afHI. of the meaj’s • grievance® ia the long Bmouts, . amounting to ten eae3T diay. .