THE MEAT STRIKE.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 214, 13 March 1907, Page 4

THE MEAT STRIKE.

[per press association.] Invercargill, March 12. The Wallacetown slaughtermen have informed the Managing Director that, in accordance with the decision arrived at in Canterbury, they will not accept the Company's proposal. Christchurch, March 12. The mediation of Messrs T. H. Davey and Geo. Witty, M.'sH.R., in connection with the slaughtermen's dispute, has proved ineffective. The Union accepted their offer to do what they could, but explained that they had quite lost faith in the Arbitration Court^ and would have nothing to do with it. A copy of tho. proposed new log was given to Messrs Davey and Witty for the purpose of conferring with the two companies. A conference was held this morning, but the manager of the companies absolutely refused to discuss the matter except on the Arbitration Court basis. Messrs Davey and Witty reported to that effect at a special meeting of the Union, held to-night, and were thanked and cheered for their services. The Union affirmed the position that it would not take less than 25s a hundred, and, while it was willing to enter into an industrial agreement with the companies, it would have nothing to do with the Arbitration Court. The position consequently is exactly where it was before and the men are trying to get other work. At a largely-attended meeting of the General Labourers' Union tonight a motion was adopted expressing sympathy with the slaughtermen in their present trouble.