MEAT STRIKE ENDED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14923, 22 February 1912, Page 7

MEAT STRIKE ENDED.

y SATISFACTORY AGREEMENT. i . TH UNION WILL REGISTER. ffOBK SHOULD START on MONDAY. B, pffiWBAPK.— ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. . svTisFicroßY settlement of the meat workers' strike has been arrived at, and Th Gear Meat Company's and Wellington Sit Export Company's works at Petone Sd Ngahaurangn should be in full string Lain on Monday next. An agreement has been come to. between u 'parties, and a commit representing Loth sides will draft the terms into the , form 0 an industrial agreement, which will L submitted to both sides for ratification to . m orrow. All the mam points in re- • card to wages were settled on Tuesday, L conference to-day discussing general conditions and preference to unionists, Although the preference clause submitted by the m en was not adopted as it stood, satisfactory compromise was arrived at, Terence being granted to • all casual workers, the terms being that the men - must join the union within 14 days of re- : ceiving employment. - Another condition is that the union shall register under the Arbitration Act, as the terms will he drawn up in the form of an industrial agreement, with a currency of three yeans. .The full terms arrived at will not be disclosed until to-morrow, but tbev are said to be ahead of any other agreement at present in force in the industry in the Dominion. At the conclusion of the conference, speeches were made by representatives of ' both parties. Mr. P. Hally (Conciliation Commissioner}, who acted as chairman, being heartily thanked for his efforts at mediation. .