WORK AND WAGES.
[Special to Press Association.) SYDNEY, Feb. 9, At a conference between the miners and the owners of the Stockton mine the latter declined to re-open the proposal recently refused by the men to accept a hewing rate of 4s 2d per ton, with concessions on other rates. The owners informed the men that they could return to work at a rate of 3s 2d, which was tho district rate, bnt declined absolutely to discharge tho firemen should the miners return. The intercolonial Shearers’ Conference has decided to instruct shearers to refuse employment through the Pastoialists’ Unions, or to lake or give references. The Shearers’ Conference contends that the pastoraliats committed a breach of agreement through the system adopted in engaging shearers., It is ctated that the Shearers’ Union fund amounts to over £II,OOO.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10269, 10 February 1894, Page 5
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