THE SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13487, 14 May 1907, Page 6

THE SLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO EVADE 'FINES. '• '■■■ } v\ . -. i [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, Monday. The slaughtermen who were fined as the result of the recent strike at the Freezing Works were given time in which 1 to pay the amounts, but this leniency apparently . miscarried in cases, with; the result that the payments in some cases have been long in coming to hand, while there were instances of a direct attempt to evade the fine outright. As reported at the time, the ringleaders of the strike were Australians, with whom the Labour Department lOund great difficulty in dealing. On Friday ;it was discovered that some of the men intended to default, and leave by the Maheno for Australia in the evening. The Labour Department at Christchurch, therefore, acting on instructions from Wellington, caused a warrant for arrest to be issued against one of the, suspected men, against whom writs of attachment had been issued by the Supreme Court, but the man paid "the amount owing just before the warrant was to have been executed. There were others about to leave the colony, add orders were taken,out against their wages, and held by the company. There is-reason to believe that three of the men left by the Maheno for Sydney via Wellington on Friday night,' out the amount of the wages held will probably satisfy the amount of the fines owing.