WILL THERE BE A STRIKE?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 706, 8 January 1910, Page 3

WILL THERE BE A STRIKE?

SLAUGHTERMEN’S WAGES. The trouble which has been brewing for some time among the slaughtermen, took definite shape on Thursday, when, it is understood, notice was served on the Wellington Meat Export Company of their intention to strike fourteen days hence. There are no difficult complications in respect to the latest industrial trouble to agitate the public mind. The slaughtermen want 25s instead of 23s for killing sheep aud lambs, and it is understood that they do not intend to accept any less amount, though the last agreement under which they worked, which has now run out, only stipulated for the 235. The fourteen days’ notice of intention to strike is a statutory provision set out in Section 9 of the amendment of 1908 to the Industrial Conciliation aud Arbitration Act. The section also binds the employer in case of a lock-out, but in his case the fine is ,£SOO. A delegation of slaughtermen belonging to the union, accompanied by Mr M. J. Reardon (secretary), waited on the officials ot the Gear Meat Company yesterday, but in that case the notice of intention to strike had not been given up to 5 o’clock last evening.