MEAT WORKERS' STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 201, 22 February 1912, Page 5

MEAT WORKERS' STRIKE.

SETTLEMENT REACHED. •■ :/f By Telegraph—Special to News. ,„ip"\ Wellington, Last Night, .''/%% A satisfactory settlement of the meat i workers' strike has been arrived at, and the Gear Meat Company and the Wet ■' Islington Meat Export Company's works , ', at Pet one and Ngahauranga should be in .'j full swing again on Monday next. An' ' ■'-, agreement has been come to between the ■-'-; parties, and a committee representing ~'■'* both sides will draft terms into a form of industrial agreement, which will be ' : v submitted to "both sides for aatiflcatiott '; to-morrow. All the main points in re- '",-'- gard to the wages were settled on Tues- '., day, the conference to-day discussing gen- • ■■'; oral conditions and preference to union- ',' ists. Although the preference clause , - : submitted by the mea was not adopted ;■ an it stood, a satisfactory' compromise •.[■ was arrived at, preference being granted ; > to all casual workers, the terms being V that the men must join the union within , / fourteen days of receiving employment; . Another condition is that the union shall ''.,.■ register under the Arbitration Act. As ; ■< the terms will he drawn up in the form . • of an industrial agreement, with a cur- , . ; reney of three years, the full terms ar- . rived at will not disclosed until tomorrow, but they are said to be ahead of -■ any other agreement at present in force '. in the Dominioi. '■" At the conclusion of the conference ) speeches were made by the representa- ■ tives of both parties, Mr. P. Hally, Con- 'V ciliation Commissioner, who acted as .'; chairman, being heartily thanked for his ■ "-; efforts at mediation. '■