The Shearing Trouble.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
SYDNEY, Jane 13.
Mr Dangar, while admitting that the statement as to tbe approaching shearers' strike attributed to him is true, says he did not intend it to have the importance now attached to it.
SYDNEY, June 14.
The officials of the Pastoralists' Union state that over forty sheds in Queensland have completed shearing under the new agreement, while the report from early shearing districts in this colony indioate there will be no difference.
MELBOURNE, Jane 13.
Mr Spenoe, general secretary of the Australasian Shearers' Union, interviewed respecting Mr Dangar's statement, declared that a tenth of tbe pastoralists were qaite satisfied and desirous of shearing under tbe old agreement, but a few officials of the Owners' Association were determined to force on a fight. Tbe shearers had known this for some time, and were quite prepared. They would figh; tbe thing out, but not un the same lines as tbe last strike. He also stated that tbe Victorian Union as a body refused to accept the new agreement, . and the other colonies would support them. j
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2747, 14 June 1894, Page 2
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182The Shearing Trouble. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2747, 14 June 1894, Page 2
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