THE BUTCHERS' STRIKE.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday.
A conference between the butchers on strike and the employers was held to-night, the Conciliation Commissioner
presiding.
In tho course of a lengthy discussion it was stated, for the men that the butchers' present wages wore not a
living wage, but merely an existence. The men felt justified in the action they Lad taken, and were prepared to stand to their action.
Mr Wright, the employers' representative, said tlicT'inen in striking had made the employers and the public their catspaw. Tho real dispute, was between the Arbitration Court and the Union.
In summing up, after a long discussion, the Commissioner said it seemed that tho. Union was mainly concerned about tho rate of wages of the lowestpaid men than anything else. The Commissioner put to the employers the union's demand for a flat rate of £4 per week, but was answered by the employers that they could not consider it, and that the only hope of settlement was to bring the matter before the Arbitration Court at its next sitting in Auckland.
Eventually an adjournment to Thursday was agreed to.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13987, 25 November 1919, Page 6
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188THE BUTCHERS' STRIKE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13987, 25 November 1919, Page 6
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