SHEARING TROUBLE.
THE FIRST BLOW
MEN’S THREAT IN CASE OF DELAY BY EMPLOYERS.
(Received July 18, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 17
The first blow in the shearing trouble lias been struck. Shearers on the Miakin station, Moree. ceased work following on the refusal of a 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, increase in wages for every week or part of a week the sheds are kept idle by pastoralists declining to concede these demands.—U.P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5536, 19 July 1920, Page 5
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