WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 296, 7 May 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

A LINER HELD UP. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Tuesday. The ocean liner Zealandic is held up. The shipping men arc conferring witli Mr. Webb at noon. No decision has been reached, and the conference is still sitting. The Zealandic was to have taken 50,000 carcases, but the waterside workers refuse to handle them. THE TIMARU STRIKE. ' Timaru, Last Night. Regarding the Smithfield butchers' strike, the only definite: news i 9 that more men have been taken on, and that forty are on the board to-day. All the other men are in their places. The trouble has spread to the Parcora works, where the unionist butchers knocked off this afternoon, five men staying on. The s.s. Zealandic, which had lain in the roadstead for some days, owing to bad weather, came in this morning to load meat and other produce. The watersiders declined to turn to on the general cargo. It is understood that they will hold a meeting to-morrow morning to decide whether to work her or not, after hearing from the secretary, who went north with Mr. P. C. Webb to-day. The striking butchers and watersiders invited the .managers of the freezing works and shipping to a conference this morning, but the managers declined. The Smithfield maanger said that the-time for a conference was gone by.' There was nothing to confer about; and he did not want to be dragged into any other dispute. Both freezing companies say that they will not take on again any of the butchers who have gone out, and will have no more to do with them. As re-

gards loading the Zealandie. exporters say that they will find men if the watersiders refuse the work, and if they try to block the boat at other ports they will find men for these also.