SHEARERS’ WAGES
UNION’S DECISION NOT LESS THAN £1 A 100 (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The national executive of the New Zealand Workers’. Union advises all workers to accept engagements at the following terms: Shearers, 20s per 100 with rations, and 25s without; shed hands and prcssors £2 10s a week, or Is 6d an hour; all others, £2 Es a week or Is 4d an hour; cooks, 12 men or under, £3 a week ; cooks’ assistants, £2 iOs. The general secretary explains that these are the rates the union is prepared to accept in an agreement with the sheepowners. lie says the reasons ableness of them is recognised by quite 75 per cent, of the sheepowners, who have already expressed a willingness to. pay nothing less than £1 a 100 for shearing. The rates proposed by the sheepowners are 18s a ICO; prcssors, £2 a week or Is 2d an hour; all others, £1 15s a week or Is >an hour; cooks, £2 10s; cooks’ assistants, ,£2.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17909, 13 October 1932, Page 11
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169SHEARERS’ WAGES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17909, 13 October 1932, Page 11
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