SLAUGHTERMEN’S DEMANDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7024, 12 January 1910, Page 6

SLAUGHTERMEN’S DEMANDS

NO CHANGE IN THE POSITION. Locally yesterday there was practically no change in respect to the position created by the slaughtermen's demand for increased pay. Both sides were silent as to what was likely to be the upshot of the trouble. The Council of Conciliation will meet this afternoon to consider the demands of the workers. Mr P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, is hopeful that some course will be devised whereby serious trouble will be obviated. Though the council will possibly be in a position to make its recommendations by to-monrow, they will have to be submitted to both parties before any further definite step can 'be taken. The men. it is stated, fully feel the strength of their position, and reports are current that one of the local companies would be willing to concede most of what is asked rather than have its employees strike. LEFT IN ABEYANCE. , PBEEB ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, January 11. At the conference between the Farmers’ Freezing Company and the slaughtermen employed in' the export trade, it was pointed ont that those employed in the regular local trade received 25s per hundred, and it was urged that those in the export trade, whose work was intermittent, should receive an equal amount. It was decided to leave the matter in abeyance till after the . Wellington conference, to which each si do will send a delegate,