SLAUGHTERMEN'S DEMANDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7026, 14 January 1910, Page 6

SLAUGHTERMEN'S DEMANDS

. PROSPECTIVE ACTION. Matters affecting the new demands of the Slaughtermen's Federation are practically at a standstill for the time being. The. Council of Conciliation will meet again to-morrow morning to further consider .the position, while there will be a meeting in Wellington to-day of representatives of employers from various parts of the Dominion to consider what course' it will be most advisable to pursue. • The impression appears to have got abroad in some quarters that tho Wellington Council of Conciliation will make recommendations to . apply to the! industry throughout the Dominion. This is not so. The Council will simply deal with the industry in so far as if is concerned in the Wellington industrial district,- but no - .doubt whatever decision, is arrived at will have a considerable influence on the decisions at other centres. From what can be learned from those in a position to know thero. appears a reasonable prospect of the difficulty being satisfactorily -settled locally without a strike. . ..' -'■

It is reported that the granting of the union's demands of 25s a hundred for killing, and the eight-hout day by the local employers will not necessarily mean that the members of the local union will bo content. The union authorities maintain that the dispute is not merely one as between the Wellington employers and the union, but a federation dispute. Therefore 'no individual union will be content to accept 25s and eight hours unless these terms are conceded all round. This is likely to protract the settlement of tho trouble.