A SHEARERS’ DISPUTE.
ACTION AGAINST MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. GISBORNE, March 1.
An application to interpret the shearers’ award in regard to the wages of cooks was made before Mr E: C. Levvey, S.M., by the East Coast Shearers’ Union in an action against William Douglas Lysnar, M.P. The facts were not in dispute. Lysfaar for 20 years had employed only one cook for shearers. This year two cooks appeared on the scene, and Lysnar offered one woman £4 a week. This was refused. There were only eight shearers working at the time, and it was contended that it was absurd to say that one cook could uot cook for more than twelve men.
The Magistrate held that more than £4 a week should have been paid, but as the union had failed to carry out the preliminaries, the information would be dismissed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3860, 6 March 1928, Page 13
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