COMPANIES WILL STAND BY FREE LABOUR.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13644, 8 February 1913, Page 6

COMPANIES WILL STAND BY FREE LABOUR.

/THE kE-RBGISTRATJiON QUESTION. :

Wellington, Feb. 7

It is believed by those in a, position to judge that the meat freezing works at Petone and Ngaliauranga will be opened again next week with a sufficiency of killers, more or lesg expert, to ensure a good start. The applications which are coming in for^hooks are'said to be gui to satisfactory, as most of the, men offering their services have had'some' experience in killing, and dressing sheep. An authoritative statement' declares that the companies will stand; through thick and thin by those killers j and labourers who now come forward. I

In connection with the repent re-reg-istration of three of'the North Island unions the Crown Law Office is to be requested to define the term "workers" as used in the- Act. The contention is that the slaughtermen, by voluntarily knocking off, cannot now bo described as "workers."