SHEARERS' DISPUTE
BEFORE THE CONCILIATION COURT.
(»! TEtBfIttAPH.—fHB6S ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN, 3rd August.
' The Conciliation Court sat to-day to hear.a'dispute brought by the Sheopowriers against the Otago and Southland Shearers' "Union. The owners offered 20s per hundred for sheep or lambs, and 3s per hundred, extra' if the shearers found themselves ; presaers ' and wool rollers, 35s a week, or Is 2d an hour; other shed.hands, 325.6 d a week, or Is Id an hour; cooks, £2 a week; cooks' assistants, 32s 6d. If a worker:provided his own rations, the rates to he increased 16s. ' . \ The shearers asked for'27s 6d pcr 1, hundred for sheep, with rations; stud. or. double-fleeced sheep, rams or ram stags, double rates; shed hands, £3 a week and found, or Is 6d hour; wool pressers, £4 a week, 2s a bale, or 9d a cwt; cooks, £4 a week for 20 men, £5 between 20 and 30 meri, £6 over 1 30 men, arid found in each case; cooks' assistants to b.e found where there are 20 men qr over, and paid not less than £3 a week.* The owners agreed to pay a war bonus of 7s. 6d to shearers with regard to,shed hands. They offered 37s 6d a week and 30s to lads under 18, or Is 3d and Is an hour. . ■
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 30, 4 August 1917, Page 11
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216SHEARERS' DISPUTE Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 30, 4 August 1917, Page 11
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