THE SLAUGHTERMEN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 January 1913, Page 5

THE SLAUGHTERMEN

j A PROPOSED CONFERENCE. j PROSPECT OF SETTLEMENT. ' Yesterday 'was the last day ttpon ■which the offer of tho freezing companies to the slaughtermen, of 2/s (xl per hundred sheep and lambs, remained open. As was anticipated, in 110 oaso lias tlio offer of the companies been accepted. So far as the Waingawa. "works are concerned, flu important development is expected to-day. Wo are informed on excellent authority that a conference will bo held botween representatives of the Farmers' Meat Company and the local branch of the Slaughtermen's IT .hi on. As a re.su It of this conference, it is confidently expected that a,-settlement of the dispute will be arrived at, andf t.hat tihe |lcrca.l "works "will not be closed down. ; Tt is understood that the men, will not press their demands in regard to learners, though the claim for 30s per hundred, and other conditions which will not seriotisly affect the local Company, will be insisted .upon. Tho result of the conference will ""obably be known in time for pubhcal inn m our issue of Monday. Should the conference prove abortive, the men will, cease work c!n January * 31st.

ATTITUDE OF FARMERS' UNION. LETTER FROM SIR GEORGE CLIFFORD. (liv T'leoranb —Pr«j Auociatu>n.) WELLINGTON. Last Night. S : f George Clifford, chairman of tho conference of N.Z. Freezing Companies, in a letter to the provincial secretary of the Farmers' Union, Palmerston North, referring: to a resolution passed by that body approving of. .the action of the freezing companies 'md. "contnection ••with-the slaughtermen's demands, says it is satisfactory to note that the general feeling amongst rmennbens of the union was that the companies had offered very liberal terms, ft was their ,inter*' to offer terms as liberal a..s was consistent with the due performance of duties which they owe to a great 'industry, of which they form, an integral part, and to the workers whose assistance they fully recogngise. The rejection of such terms "was almost inconceivable, but if such an event should. Gclbulr; lit was gratifying to T". r«" that tlie companies would ha y" the siipporfc of the Farmers'" tJnlon in the ellington Province.