NEW ZEALAND SHEARERS' UNION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14684, 18 November 1909, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND SHEARERS' UNION.

DELAY IN GRANTING REGISTRATION. (FsOU OCR OWN CORRESrOXDENT.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 16, The officers of the' New Zealand Shearers and Other Pastoral Employees' Union have not yet been notified of the registration of the union under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, Some throe weeks ago the Department of Labour informed the general secretary of the union that the proposed rules of the anion were being considered by the Crown liuv officers. The probable explanation of the delay is considered to be that as the union is breaking new ground in proposing to engage mi direct political action, and to lwve the Dominion treated as one industrial district as far as the members are concerned, the department is having the proposed rules carefully gone through. At present the Wellington branch of tho unior. has two organisers at work—Messrs 11. Hawkins and E. \V. Abbott—who are operating in the Hawke's Bay and Waira rapa districts. A third organiser is to be appointed to work the Wanganui and Raugitikei district,. It is probable that on the completion of their work for the Wellington branch, arrangements will be made to have all three sent into the Auckland and Gisborno districts. Mr M. Laracey. another organiser, will operate in Southland under the auspices of the Otago branch. Mr P. J. Darev, general secretary of '.he union, who has been in Christchurch during the past week, leaves about the end of this week for the Marlborough district, and will visit the different sheep stations there.