EMPLOYERS FOLLOW NEW ZEALAND'S EXAMPLE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20011, 14 February 1914, Page 5

EMPLOYERS FOLLOW NEW ZEALAND'S EXAMPLE.

COMBINATION AGAINST STRIKERS

SYDNEY, -February 13. Since the breaking of the New Zealand strike, there has. been a growing movement among Australian employers in the direction of unity in resisting the employees' constant demands for higher wages and shortened hours. The wharfmen's "lazy" strike aad the butchers trouble added a strong impetus to the movement. i Following the Employers' Federation ukase, a conference to-day of the pastoraliste' and Farmers 1 Associations and all trades direeUy and indirectly allied in the meat industry decided to unit© firmly in resisting the butchering employees' demands. The meeting discussed the proposal to withdraw the employers' offer to the strikers. Finally a resolution was adopted appointing a permanent committee to deal with disputes. Speeches indicated that the employers had reached the limit of compromise. The committee subsequently appointed representatives to meet the Minister of Labour. It also decided to supply hospitals and other Government institutions with meat. Anyone holding stocks of meat in cold storage were asked to place them at the committee's disposal. When the men attended at the Glebe Island abattoirs to-day, they found, with the exception of one or two establishments, that all work had ceased and hundreds idle. The men claim that this constitutes a lock-out.