SHEARERS AND SHED HANDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7263, 20 October 1910, Page 5

SHEARERS AND SHED HANDS

BAST COAST DEMANDS. TEESS ASSOCIATION, AUCKLAND. October 19. An industrial dispute has been filed by the Gisborne and East Coast Shearers’ and Woolshed Employees* Industrial Union of (Workers, and Messrs R. Mcßae (Tntekavra), iWyllie, and Thomas Halbart have been recommended for appointment as assessors to act on the Conciliation Council. An elaborate statement of the demands, extending into forty-seven clauses, and cov{ering 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 (cooka. . The shearers are asking £1 per 100 and [found for all flock sheep, wethers, ewes, and ilambs; £2 per 100 and fonnd fdr rams six 'months old and over, ram stags, doublefleeced sheep, and stud sheep; and £4 per 100 and found foe stud rams. i In the case of lost time, through the fault of the employer or his agent, Is 3d per hour is demanded, and an extra 6d per 100 is wanted to cover the cost of the upkeep of shearing appliances. A week’s work to consist of 48 hours, with not more than eight hours and forty minutes for one day. It is asked that the wages of shed hands be £2 a week and found, £2 10s a, week and found for persons at sheds where less than ten shearers arc .employed, and for over that number Is 6d per bale, or 6d per cwt; and for persons with the screw 7d per cwt. Wagoa for cooks are asked for as fol lows:—£s for 20 men/£4 for 20 to 30 men, and £5 for over 30 men.