SHEARERS’ AWARD.

Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6202, 6 October 1921, Page 5

SHEARERS’ AWARD.

OFFICIAL COPT OF AWARD COMES TO RAND. APPLIES TO ALL NEW ZEALAND. Bv yesterday's mail Mr G. R. Whiting. inspector of Factories, received copies of Northern Industrial District-. award for■'•hearers and shed-hands It is, of course, issued by the Government Printer, and at the bottom contains iiie following memorandum:— "TliL award is identical in its terms with the Wellington award. By agreement between the parties the awards made in each district are similarly worded gnd hearings in the districts other than Wellington, Canterbury. Otago,- and Southland have been waived."—(Signed) F. V. Frazer. The date, of the award is September G. Speak.nc to a Times reporter yesi.erdav Mr W. G. Sherratt, President of the local sbeejiownefs’ Union, said he had notic'd in the Times a statement In- the Minister to the effect (hat sheepowners who w.-re not members of the Sheepowners’ Union and had not been cited as parties to the present award were not bound by any award. That was not correct, said Mr Sherratt. as all the sheepowners in New Zealand were joined in the award, and therefore were hound by it. WARNING TO FARMERS. EXTREMISTS’ ILL-WILL AND GREED A well-known sheepfarnu-r informed the Christchurch Press that it will be absolutely useless to seek funds for unemployment relief in the country districts' so long as a large 'body of workers continue to be ordered by their leaders to refuse work estimated by the Arbitration Court to amount to an average wage of £5 IGs Cd per week, and to hold up a. great and already d.isI ressed industry for more money than that. The wage accorded by the Court to the .Shearers’ Union is itself far more than the industry can. afford, but the farmers intend to loyally provide it if they can. The shearers are ordered to demand still more, and to stop the industry till they get it—notwithstanding that skilled shearers can easily make £2 per working day even at the award rate. This manifestaI ion by Labour lenders of Teckless illwill and greed, ns the farmers at least regard it, will, in our informants opinion, cause any demand in the rural district for .unemployment relief to be regarded with actual derision. It will merely be providing strike funds to kill the farmers' own businesses, and encourage those who are seizing the moment of the farmers’ hardest struggle to hurl threats of ruin at their heads.