SHEARERS' WAGES.
. THE UNION'S ATTITUDE. i STATEMENT BY THE GENERAL .' (By Telegraph—Press Associatioa.l ' Dunedin June 10. Mr. M. Laracy, general secretary of. the New Zealand Shearers- and Wool-, shed Employees' Industrial Union of Workers, addressed the local members of the association in the Trades Hall to-night. In the course of his remarkshe advocated the.organisation of the' union, and said it desired to approach the Sheepowners' Association and bring about a conference. to draw a scale of pay for shed workers. The union would not encourage a strike. . Its membere : took up the position that they would • not. engage at less than £1 per hundred: The Australian : shearers had written, stating that they would not come over and..shear under that price. The time had come when all the country workers should organise into one body. •At the conclusion of Mr. Laracy's remarks it was decided to appoint an agent of the association in Dunedin, and that no member accept engage-ment-except through him. It was also, decided that no shearer shall _ engage a stand until an award -is provided for. the rest of the men in the shed.
Subsequently Mr. Laracy received a telegram from the secretary of the Wellington branch of the union to the effect, that the award must be given for shed hands before the shearers would accept engagement.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 840, 11 June 1910, Page 6
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