SHEARERS’ WAGES
UNION’S DEMANDS .. V (By Telegraph—Press Association) . , " <■" WELLINGTON, This Day. ./ The national executive of the New • Zealand Workers’ Union advises . all workers to accept engagement at--the y following terms Shearers. 20s per 100 . with rations, 25s without; shed hands • and pressers, £2 10s a- week or Is 6d an hour; all others, £2 5s a week of ;ls: 4d £ an hour; cooks, 12 men or under, £3 a week; cooks’ assistants, £2 10s. , 3 The general secretary explains that these are the rates the union is pre- { pared to accept in agreement with the sheepowners. He says the • reasonableness of them is recognised by quite ■75 per cent, of sheepowners, who have al- V ready expressed willingness to pay no- -r thing less than £1 per 100 for shearing. The rates proposed by the sheepown- - ers are 18s per 100; pressers £2 a week or Is 2d'an hour; all others £1 15s a v week or Is an hour; cooks, '£2 10s; cooks, assistants, £2.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 October 1932, Page 7
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166SHEARERS’ WAGES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 October 1932, Page 7
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