SHEARERS' CLAIMS
ULTIMATUM TO NEW SOUTH WALES PASTORALISTS
THE FIRST BLOW STRUCK By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrljM ' Sydney, July 17. The New South Wales shearers have intimated that nnless the pastoralists in tho Central and Western districts concede their claims, shearing will not com-' mence. The. secretary of tho Graziers' Association stated that although the other organisations had made terms with shearers, the New South Wales branch was determined hot to concede the forty-four hour week.—Press Assn. (Rec. July 18, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, July 18. The first blow in the shearing trouble has been struck. The shearers on the Midkin Station, Moree, ceased work following on a refusal of the demand for increased rates. A meeting of shearers in Sydney resolved to demand_ a weekly wage for all classes employed in 'connection with shearing, also 10 per cent. in. crease in wages for every week or part of a week sheds are kept idle by the pastoralists declining to concede the demands—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 252, 19 July 1920, Page 5
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