CHRISTCHURCH WORKS RESUME.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 4

CHRISTCHURCH WORKS RESUME.

ASSISTANTS V. SLAUGHTERMEN*

Christchurch, Feb. 12. The mieat works are resuming to-day with'; free labour. Tho number of ■slaughterers available is not revealed, but it is understood that two experts have been engaged at -each factory to teach learners, who will be paid Is &8 an hour or 27b 6d a 100. There is Gome difference between the strikers and.the Assistants' Union, the latter advising the members that they .tire at liberty to ■slaughter as free labourers. It is alleged that tlio assistants resented the failure of the Slaughtermen's Union to. stand by thorn .some.years ago, and had nursed the grievance.