SHEARERS' AWARD

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 September 1921, Page 5

SHEARERS' AWARD

STAND BY UlvtON

NO ENGAGEMENTS TO BE MADE. OWNERS PREPARED POR CRISIS CBY TELEGRAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sep. 14. The executive of the N.Z. Workers' Union has advised Mr 0. Grayndler, general secretary, to notify all shearers and shed hands to retrain from making engagements under the Arbitration Court's recent shearers' award. It is understood that the shearers cannot be compelled to leave their winter employment, j In the course of a statement made to the Press, Mr Grayndler said the "attitude of the shearers will affect the whole of the New Zealand shearing industry, which cannot afford to^be neld up for a fortnight. If the present determination of the shearers lasts a month the sheep-owners will he compelled to "capitulate. Several sheep farmers who were Interviewed said, the attitude of the shearers was not altogether unexpected, but the farmers would help themselves and each other, and Would pull through the crisis,