WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 200, 21 February 1912, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

MEAT WORK STRIKE. . -% PROSPECT OP SETTLEMENT. ) By Telegraph—Press Association, *. ' ""; ■ Wellington; Last Night?" A conference of representatives of botft , .*•s' parties ha* been sitting all the evening. "'':! discussing' tke terms for settlement' of •'"'; the strike at Petone and Ngabaura'nga ' * freezing works. , The sooferenoe has rat.Jif concluded, but kas adjourned itill the -\ morning. No particulars have been '-/ I divulged, but it is reported that such .'-£ satisfactory progress towards settlement' : <»5 wa» made tKat there is every prospect ■>■% of work being resumed within the next few dayb. . , '4 THE PLAXMILL TROUBLE. . f J Palmewton North, l&st Night. ■ '<< In connection with the threatened t. *■* strike of fiaxmill hauls, du« to the defter . \l lock as t» working conditiens «f swamp. 'V' hands, matters are asuuming a more fa- •'. f vorable a«pe«t. The workers at several '-.' mills have expressed-themselves forcibly •'•} against resorting to a strike, and a meet- • ing has been called of the workers at the ,N ; mills in qusstion, at whieh a delegate ~. will be appointed to attend Thursday's '• "I mass meeting, and to vote against any. '; proposal to'strike. Further, the,men at - ? these mills have decided not to knock off -.: work to attend the meeting on Thursday. * '