SHEARERS' DISPUTE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9344, 20 October 1910, Page 3

SHEARERS' DISPUTE.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 19. An industrial dispute has been filed by the Gisborne and East Coast Shearers' and Wool Shed Employees' Industrial Union of Workers, and Messrs ~R. McRae, Tutekawa, Wyllie, and Thos. Halbart, arc assessors to act on the Conciliation Council. An elaborate statement of demands extending into forty-seven clauses covering the conditions adopted at the annual conference held in Wellington in March and April of this year, has been lodged along with the filing of the dispute. There are in addition separate clauses affecting shed hands and wages for pressers and cooks. Shearers are asking £1 per 100 and found for all flock sheep; wethers, ewes, and lambs £2 per 100 and found for rams six months old and over, ram stags, double fleeced sheep, and stud sheep; and £4 per 100 and found for stud rams. In the case of lost tinre through the fault of an employer or his agent Is 3d per hour is demanded, and an extra 6d per 100 is wanted to cover the cost of upkeep of shearing appliances. A week's work is to consist of 48 hours with not more than eight hours and forty minutes for one day. It is asked that wages of shed hands bo £2 a week and found, £2 10s a week and found for persons at sheds where less than ten shearers are employed, and for over that number Is 6d per bale or 6d per cwt, and pressing with sci'ow 7d per cwt. Wages for cooks are asked for .as follows: —£3 for 20 men, £4 from 20 to 30 men, and £5 for over 30 men.