Low Wages for Immigrant
Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 259, 25 January 1922, Page 7
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Low Wages for Immigrant
H. W." Haynes, Koiro, Taumaranui, during- ibis shearing- worked as a 'wool presser. aud met with a sad experience, wbich is described in his own words as under: "I have just arrived from England nd I AM PAID AT THE RATE OF £1 A WEEK AND FOUND. Shearing I season coming" on, 1. am asked" to go into the shed as wool presser along! '■with another younger fellow. On wet! days, and- days when shearing cannot, l-e done;.- I am sent to do oilier out-j door work: When tbe shed is cut j out and we are paid, my -compv.nion j is paid at tbe rate oil £:_/7/6 a week j and I am pad at ihe. 'usual rate of! £1 week. AND HAVE TO DO i OTHER WORK BESIDES. Am 11 entitled to the same wages as my j companion'-at ;ho wcolpress? I am. a stranger to the Union, audi donqt know anything about it, that] being the reason I am asking your help." I Our friend asks whether he i s entitled-to the same wages as his companion. Of course he is. but the Arbitration Court is not of that opin- ion, and it is the Arbitration Coui't that rules the roost in this country. His ease is another instance of the injustice of that. Court in consistently refusing to concede the Union demand* repeatedly made, thai where station and farm workers are put. to shed work during- the shearing season they should receive the award rate for the particular work per-.' formed.-. Here we have a case where the Court's unfairness is obvious. Membership of the Union is the only S way by,.which this grievance may be l remedied;.
