SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 8 March 1907, Page 2

SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE

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r , t-'hiisteliureii, March 7 '•"'"'-•'■l'liiv betwwn the dc.e----1" '■* 10 ilml lw " >'"l»'«n.tnno result r 1 l»o>luccd w„t, ihß mt '" they ,vtm '« 'lo work unlii inlagranted. The oom. ""tih-TrbVlnr , " # , UW l ° U ' "•' ,Ur, ' e ' l Aibiti.Uiuii Cuii it. The tf* till' deadlock. " '

Ihe eoniei'ence betwe.-n Jreezmg companies ami the Sluu-'hUr-men s fnion was resumed this moniing. M Hie eJo.se ot the conferenc Mi- \\' -Mii nay manager of the Cliristchurch Meal Co., .speaking for both eonipan ts, said that no satisl'aelory result hail been arrived ul. The companies expressed complete readiness to d'reu-s the men's demands, provided any mutters upon which ii, might be found itn-po-sibb- to agree sliou'U be submitted to tho decision of the Aibitlution l '"lit. That, iuuvever, was met liv a imaniinous declaration by both thu executive of the Union and the delegales present, that they should individually and on tehiilf of the bodies whom they represented decline absolutely to submit iu any way to the de-ci-,1011 of tlm Ai'bilratou Court. "It was fell, by tho representatives of the t reezing companies," Mr Murrav stated that further discutsou was' useless inidei- such circumstance*, and the conference therefore terminated, he companies do not express any opinion as to the demands made by the men or tlieir Union, but -they consider that any arrangements should be settled nnd allinned under an award of the Court. The real point at issue is whether disputes between employer and the employed should be settled by the method of striking, us til present attempted, or by tlie system of arbitration provided for by the Act. No settlement cotud be other than futile, unless disputed ; points should be mutually referred to I the proper tribual established for that i purpose. The companies stiil adhere I to tho offer made last week that if 'the ) men return to work they shall bo paid 1 retrospectively from the date of re- - starting work any rate of pay , awaided_ by the Court." The men are t as one iu the statement that nothing - Avill content them but the rutc of 2is 1' a hundred for freezers, which they i have been demanding since tho trouble 1 began. The extra money will be more » necessary than ever now, they Btate, f on account of the fines inllicted by the s Court.