SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE IN VICTORIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 90, 10 January 1919, Page 8

SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE IN VICTORIA

. A strike took .place a few weeks ago among the slaughtermen anil by-pro-ducts hands connected with lho ; abattoirs in the Melbourne district. This bas-been settled as the result of a conference between / the mastca - butchers and •• the men. Previous to the ' settlement, the master butchers bad organised slaughtering work at the various abattoirs, and they had decided that if tho union men did not i;esuime work there ■would be no lack of meat,to the public. The men resumed on the rates of tiro arbitration award plus tho 10s.' a week for slaughtermen fjiid 6s. for labourers, which was conceded, beforo the strike took place. There is/ a' new concession, consisting of of a quarter of an hour in tho mornings and afternoons, of-Mondays and Thursday, which ate the two longest working days in the week. The men struck for M a week of *4"hours;and two 20-niinuto smoke-ohs daily. . They- will, resinno at M 10s. a week of 48 hour?, with a compromise on tho' question, of smoke-ohs: -Tho men struck without the consent of the union executive.. The executive, however, as a result of a mas 3 '.meeting,'; regained control, and this was in part responsible for tho termination- of ■ tho trouble. The men \n tho by-products section of the moat industry, together with tho labourers, resumed work on a flat rate of *C 3 1S«. a week. They'-had demanded M and a "il-homre' week.