THE SHEARERS' UNION.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 4 March 1913, Page 6

THE SHEARERS' UNION.

ilitev© "coMuomK V'bSyT jii ihrV®' jquesfciwisi—E&ction- of iMv^tiscnfc; its') ea&celkiion. of, registration uj.d# jchej Af^r^ioo.-Act.; (3)"' J ho '?»• Mp Jj !CM|»r ir#s, elected prejsidqnk A. JVKujg ('JimWu i ) bftr- 12Y5 to 921 votes. On the *" <sjaud- (jliestiion - (cancellation) 665 votes mwxwarddd in. favor <and dl7B-a«ainjt, jpft' th& tkirdi issuer the.propog&l to .raise [the subscription was defeated by. 894 to js6§ votes. Sir J. H. MoLean wns elect:ed' vice-president of the Marlborough iseetion of th© association.

A THREBHING- DISPUTE, I " TIMAETJ, March \. ' A very lai;g<j nuflbpr of shears, at •which' some millowners present, iwas held to protest against the millownjers detidinßrto ;chßpr«e for ttoieshin i by ithe hour instead of per 1000. It was jresolved efl-rjiestly to request the thr&ip■ers to revert to the old systtem. ajdd in ' (respect to the new: award for. Jmillhands it-was suggested thai whiV 'the. men - demand; pay. by the hour-tbe the, option of oaying liby the 1000.

I | * TWMS AOCtiPTED. NEW YPB3C, March, 1. The garment-workers' strike has ended; tiie manufacturers' terms being aeeept«i^

GAS SHTftlK^

i CONSipERIfJG, THE. P,OSITIQN. L -S-YJDNS®,. March 1> . < The secretary of the Gas Employers! jUnion says that the workers cannot reisum©,;until the .council of the union has (considered the position this afternoon. I The employees at the Manly Works :have beeii instructed by the union to continue working. ! Two thousand men ar ' !: o : ted by the istrike.

: The. Industrial. Court to-day. granted ;Hon. A. C. Carmiohael (Minister for Labor) an injunction restraining one of •the North Shore gas workers, who had actcl as the men's delegate, from contin ring to aid the strike of the North Shore Company's employees. In response to an advertisement, for 400 men only six men turned up. ; "IN A-SORRY PLIGHT." SYDNEY, March 1.

The city streets are lighted with electricity. also a, number of houses, and streets, but suburban shops, houses and streets, except a few, also many shops and houses in the city, depend upon gas. The hospitals in the city and suburbs are in a. sorry plight, work in the operating theatres having necessarily to be abandoned. PROPOSALS ACCEPTED. SYDNEY. March 1.

A mass meeting of gas employees yesterday afternoon decided to return to ; work Mr Carmichael's proposal to call Parliament together to amendl the Gas Act in order that a Wages Board be appointed at once.

"UNEXPECTEDLY CONTINUES." SYDNEY, March 1.

■ The strike unexpectedly continues. Mr Carmichael on Saturday conferred with the directors of the City and North Shore Companies. The latter, agreed; to accent the proposals which the men at Mr Carmichael's instance had accepted, but when Mr Carmichael met the men subsequently they declared that an increase by the Wages_ Board of threepence. sixpence or ninepence per day would be no good. They said that they must have a shilling, and told Mr Carmichael to tear up the agreement.