SERIOUS POSITION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 266, 7 October 1933, Page 7

SERIOUS POSITION

STRIKE IN VICTORIA. MEAT WORKS DISPUTE. EFFECT ON SHIPPING. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) Received October 7, 10.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, Oct. 7. A strike has developed in the meat export industry in Victoria following the decision of the slaughtermen to reject the terms offered by the exporters for a settlement of the ■ dispute over the team system of killing. The exporters decided to staff the works with volunteers, who are coming forward freely. Serious developments are expected by unionists and the extension of the strike to other States is believed possible. .. The meat works trouble and the fellmongers’ strike in Sydney is causing strong protests from the shipping interests, who point out that some vessels made a 12,000 miles’ trip out partly loaded and are now threatened with little or no back cargo. Members of the export section of the Meat Industry Employees’ Union have decided not to resume work under the terms and conditions offered by the employers under the team system of work. . This decision and the action of the employers in engaging volunteer labour means that a big dispute in the meat export trade, which is likely to involve members of the Meat Industry Union in other States and also members of other organisations engaged in the transport of sheep and lambs, is now inevitable. POSITION IN SYDNEY. YARDS TO CLOSE. SYDNEY, Oct. 6. The efforts made to settle the wool and basil workers’ strike failed, as the men decided at a mass meeting not to resume work until the employers had met their demands. The strikers disregarded the decision of the Board of Reference, which instructed them to return to work, and they refused to accept the advice of their representatives on the board that a settlement should be agreed to. With the refusal to return to work, the employers announced that the five yards affected would close to-morrow. There seems little likelihood at present of the trouble spreading to other unions.