"RIGHT AS RAIN"

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 7

"RIGHT AS RAIN"

SYDNEY BUTCHERS' TROUBLE OPTIMISTIC LABOUR MINISTER t MASTERS DECLARE UNIONISTS RESUMING. (By Telegraph.— Press AsßOciation.—Copyright.) (Received March 6, 9.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. Estell has stated that be i« satisfied that .the master butchers will /avouvably consider the proposals to have work resumed forthwith as a basis of financial settlement. In his opinion, matters are now right as rain. ,The employers state they have made no offef to the men. If the men go back it will be on the masters' terms. They declare that about a hundred unionists resumed yesterday. • , \ RUSH FOR MEAT. SYDNEY, sth March. The Cabinet Committee substituted fresh proposals to the men's delegates. Details have been withheld. ' , These were to be submitted to a mass meeting, but the board of enquiry decided to postpone the meeting ifntil Friday rught in order to consider the pro* posals. _ - • Immediately all the big city shops opened there was a rush for meat. Only a limited number of hands were available. Between 300 and 400 of the masters attended at the abattoirs, either killing or carting, the only union labour engaged being at the public slaughtering pens. Tlie Homebush market was very ani» mated, and small supplies resulted in big prices .being obtained. It Was stated late to-night that the , result of the negotiations with the butchers gives every prospect of an agreement being reached between the men and tho employers to-morrow, WHARF WORKERS' CASE.' THREATENED DISASTER AVERTED | MELBOURNE, sth March. Mr. Justice Higgins, in adjourning the wharf workers' case until Monday, congratulated the employers, the union leaders, and, above all, the public that a threatened disaster had been averted. He said that the shipowners had exercised a wise patience in not taking certain stops which would have precipitated a general struggle much greater than that which occurred in Ne.w Zealand. RAILWAY AND TRAMWAY ASSOCIATION. RE-REGISTRATION GRANTED^ SYDNEY,. Sth March. Judge Heydon granted the applica* I tion of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association for reregistration as an industrial union under the Arbitration Act. The association's former registration was cancelled. IRONWORKERS' DISPUTE. ' 1 SYDNEY, sth March. A mass meeting of ironworkers' assistants has been called for to-morrow afternoon. Otherwise Uiere are no fresh developments.