SHEARERS DEMANDS.
WAGES AND HOURS. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, Sept. 2. The forthcoming Australian Workers' Union Conference will consider the shearers' agreement, including a demand for a 44-hour week, payment of £3 per 100 for flock sheep, double rate for rams and all stud animals, pay for shed hands to be £6 weekly and keep. Various other increases are proposed, also that existing agreements be abolished and verbal agreements substituted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17255, 3 September 1919, Page 7
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