SYDNEY BUTCHERS' STRIKE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14219, 17 February 1914, Page 7

SYDNEY BUTCHERS' STRIKE.

A DEADLOCK. THE UNION’S APPLICATION FOR SLAUGHTERING SPACE. Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, February 17. On behalf of the slaughtermen representatives of the Butchers’ Union will attend the sales to buy, a resolution having been carried empowering the committee thus to use the Union funds. Appications will be made for slaughtering space at Glebe Isianu, and the general secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union says the Government ought to see that it is granted. The Minister of Works informed the Union representatives that so long as they break the law by ■ striking they will, not be allowed to use the machinery of the Industrial Arbitration Act. They have 180 cases pending against employers, which may be delayed by the disqualification of the Union in proportion to the period during which the illegal attitude is maintained. The employees of the Riverstone Meat Works are out on strike in sympathy with the Glebe Island men. The position is a deadlock, and nothing can be done until the Government takes further action. Representatives of the employers’ committee will interview the Minister to-day to atempt to reach a solution. A compulsory conference has been convened at Melbourne, because of the trouble there. Three Sydney executive officers have been summoned to attend.