SLAUGHTERING STRIKE.
FREEZING WORKS CLOSED DOWN. {By TelecraDh.—Press Association;) Auckland, March 7. When the new men engaged by the Farmers' Freezing Company to replace the strikers appealed at the works this morning, the strikers made an offer to resume under the conditions of the old award provided the company would at once consider their claims for increased wages. , The company declined 'to givs any promise, oppressed or implied, offering to take them back on the old terms. This they rejected. The butchers refused to go to work , with the neis men, and the company has therefore closed the works, and one hundred men have been thrown idle. It; is stated that the union secretary refused to admit the new men to.membership, . although qualified under . the rules of the union and the terms of the award. ' . Later. The position in connection with the j strike at the Southdown Freezing Works remains unaltered. The-actual strikers are fourteen gut boys, and a, dozen butchers, arid they have thrown out 70 men belonging to other unions. Both sides are firm, and the prospects of a settlement within the next few days do not appear very hopeful.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 760, 8 March 1910, Page 7
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