DEMANDS OF SHEARERS.
CANTERBURY DISPUTE. PARTIAL SETTLEMENT REACHED. TRY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Before a Conciliation Council the dispute between the Canterbury Sheep-owners' Union and the Canterbury Shearers' Union was heard. The dispute was rather unusual, in that the case was brought by the employers and not by the workers. The employers' main proposals were hours of work, 5 a.m. to 5 p.m., shearing to stop at 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Rates of pay, 25s per 100, with rations, in addition to a bonus of 5s per 100, and, ■in cases where shearers find their own rations, an extra 4s per ICO to be paid. The workers asked for 32s 6d per 100, with rations, and double rates for shearing rams, stags, and double-fleeced sheep. A flat rate of 30s per 100 was agreed to. The employers also undertook to import £300 worth of hand-shears, and sell them at cost through the union. The clause, on which* no agreement was reached were referred to the Arbitration Court.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17244, 21 August 1919, Page 6
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