SHEARERS' CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 31 March 1913, Page 9

SHEARERS' CONFERENCE.

i'RUPOSEU NKW AGREEMENT. (P.r TclPSrapb. - Press Asscviatiou.) \VKU.IN<;TOX. Sunday. The Slifurprs' Cimffrcii'-c received a tele-M-uni yi-ierd.iy fnmi the Shi-cpown-crs' C rederation. exprussinp readiness to meet the sliparprs' executive in tonfei- ,,,„,, but pointing out that the federation executive Has been recommended by ti,e lauti-ilmiy Union to renew the |ire-.Mit award for » further threo yortr*. Tin- stuted that if the shearers' executive ajrrei'il to this a cciiiference- would be unnecessary. Various details reg:vvdiii){ pi'_rw and fomlu.-t of wnrk in -beds were di.-eiissc(l at "irnjltli. It w.i* resolved to make eve-v clVovt li> l>rinjf all rural workers within the bounds of one Dominion orsiUHA-itiou. On the sulijeet of lost lime, it was revived that ill v:i<v of stoppage of iniLchinery at any slmd through brpak:,'e. or where ii" sl,e:xrer w.is rendered iiile throuL'h Hit- employer or ■his agent failing to >-l iri shearing on the dale advisrdTor failinp to maintain n supply of s'.\ee]). tlm -hearer .-hou'.d lie paid at the rate of 1/3 per 'hour for all such time 10-l [1 wa - lesolved thai no shearer .sTiould lie allowed to leave a shed at his own wi,]'i vi-iflmu! the consent of the rrrajority of except ill ca-io of accident, illness, or earnest necessity. \ depuiutiotl from the conference "will wsiit upon the Prime Minister (the Hon. "W. F. Massey) to-morrow.