SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 29 December 1917, Page 3

SLAUGHTERMEN'S DISPUTE.

NO AUSTRALIANS NEED APPLY. In a Taranaki meat works recently (states the News) a couple of Australian butchers appeared. As soon as they' took off their coats', the other workmen held a meeting, and immediately decided to inform the management that if the visitors went on they would go off. A representative of the men saw the Australians, and told them of the position, stating that they had nothing against them personally—indeed, they were willing to help them financially, if ■ necessary—but they objected to the principle of Australians filling the places of their own men who had gone to the front, and simply would not work alongside them. The management wisely decided to consult the wishes of their own staff, and the Australians went elsewhere. One of them afterwards seemed a job in another works, only to find that the workmen there took up a similar attitude. The employees of the freezing works throughout the Dominion resent- very much the incoming of Australians, who are not subject to military conscription, and there is a united determination not to Work-in any place where-they are employed. ______