SLAUGHTERMEN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13424, 15 March 1907, Page 5

SLAUGHTERMEN.

A SETTLEMENT PROBABLE.

(Per Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, March 14.

At Islington there have been about thirty men at work for the last day or two, and the proportion of men able to slaughter for export is gradually increasing. At Smithfield there are about twenty mo"n as* work, of whom about ono-half are. killing for export. Applications for work from suitable men are coming in more freely.

A meeting of the Slaughtermen's Union was held to-night, as a result of which a telegram was sont to the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier, by Messrs T. H. Davey and Geo. Witty, M.'s.H.R., stating that a resolution was carried unanimously that members of the Union and Messrs Davey and Witty should be vested with full powers to arbitrate with the directors- of the freezing companies, any question in dispute to be docided by the Arbitration Court. In view of this decision, the Minister was asked to give the men who were fined every" possible chance to pay as best they can. . AUCKLAND, March 14.

To-day an application was filed with the Clerk of Awards by the Slaughtermen's Uryon citing the employers to appear in an industrial dispute at the next sitting of the Arbitration Court in Auckland, which opens on April Bth. The men were not prepared to await the docision of the employers as to their demands, fearing that delay would prevent the case being heard at the appvoaching sitting of the Court. The workers ask for increased wages and improved conditions generally. INVERCARC4ILL, March 14. There are no new strike developments to report.