WAGES DISPUTE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 5

WAGES DISPUTE.

TROUBLE AT BUBNSIDE. MORE PAY OR CEASE WORK. [bt telegram.—pbess association.] Dunedin, May & Tho employees of tho Burnside freezing' works, the property of the Cbristchurch Meat Company, have for some time past been dissatisfied with the rate of pay being given them. About November last the men were informed, it is stated, that they would receive tho samo rate of pay as was made tha ' subject of the award of the .Cbristchurch froezing works, namely Is. 3d. for ordinary ■ timo of eight hours' day, and Is. sd. for . overtime. The season was commenced on January 28, but it is .alleged that the com- ' pany has declined to give more than Is. per ' hour for ordinary time, and Is. l}d. for overtime. It is further alleged that pay to' outsido hands, was reduced from Is. to lljd. > per hour after putting in about ono month's' work, the result being general clissatisfae- , tion. Tho men 'affirm that the demands for ' an increaso liavo met with a point blank re- / fusal, and employees, numbering 17 in all, : havo intimated to the management that unless their wishes are acceded ,to they will cease work at 12 o'clock to-morrow (Satur- y day), and will not return until such time as they got what they aro asking. ■ It is stated by the men that in, reducing outsido hands to lljd. per hour the company has brought them under . the manure workers' award,! which tho men contend tho company is not justified in doing.