MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14600, 26 February 1913, Page 10

MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD.

DISPUTE REFERRED TO ARBITRA. TION COURT. AIELBOURNE, February 25. No agreement resulted from the com- '" pulsory conferenco in connection with, tho Merchant Service Guild dispute. The matter has been referred to tha" Arbitration Court. POSITION INCANTERBURY. At the local factories work is progressing satisfactorily; tho boards are well manned, although not quite full yet and it is freely reported ihat Union men are applying for work at variousplaces in the South Island. Thero is & tooling abroad that the Union must havo made some niovo in tho direction of sending secret instructions to, at , r least, tho married men on its roll, giving them permission to go back to worx should they feel hiclincd to accept tho " companies' terms, recognising that at present this class of worker is suffering considerable hardship. The slaughtering by freo labour i. still trotting bettor in quality and a well known exporter, in conversation * with a "Press" reporter said that ho was quite satisfied that tho work at present being dono is even better than that turned out by the old hands. 'Tor tho first week," ho remarked, "in my opinion, tho work turned out was Inferior to the old style", but now anyone who knows anything at all about tho matter will agree that it is quite as* good, and I maintain that it is bettor. Thero is even less damago being _oste. to the meat I am putting through no works than wns formerly tho caso and I am satisfied." Tho behaviour of all the workers it, in nearly all cases, all that could , bo desired. At one of tho local factoriM, two of the yard labourers wero illadvised enough to use the word "scab," - and the consequence was that they wero sacked at once. Tho result of this firm stand on the part of tho company concerned, shows plainly that it"docs not intend to allow tho free labourers to be molested or annoyed in any way if it can bo prevented..