WELLINGTON SHEARERS' AWARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9171, 20 August 1908, Page 5

WELLINGTON SHEARERS' AWARD.

The following is the schedule to the Wellington Shearers' Award:— INTERPRETATION. 1. For the purposes of this award—"Employer" or "owner" includes the manager or agent of the employer or owner. "Shearing " means hand or machine shearing. RATES OF PAY. 2. The shearing; rate fahall not be less than £1 per one hundred sheep, with rations supplied. If radons are not supplied the rate shall not be less than £1 2a 6d per hundred. The rate for shearing adult rams shall be double the foregoing rates, and the rate for shearing stud sheep shall be mutually agreed upon. 3. At the commencement of the shearing the employer shall fix a day on which the shearers shall have the right to receive weekly progress payments, not exceeding 75 per centum of the amount then due. Payment shall be made to each shearer himself or to his order, and eilher by cheque, in cash, or by order, and, if by cheque, on any bank of which there is no local branch, exchange shall be addel: Provided that any cheque which the payee requires to remit to the olace On which it has been dnw.i shall be deemed to be a local chitq'je. 4. Subject to previous payments and to ai;\ sun legally due the employer, all sneep shorn shall be paid for in f.ill at the er:d of the shearing: Provid-d that a shearer or his adminidtratjf shall bi entitled to and shall receive payment in full on the termination of his employment through illness or death in his family. HOURS OF LABOUR. 5. The hours of labour shall in every case be su:ij*ct to agreement between employer and the shearers' representative. "Gut-outs" shall like«'iss be c.ie subject of agreement. ACCOMMODATION, Etc. 6 With respect to accomodation the following provisions shall piy:(1.) Tha employer ■ shall proyide free grazing for one horse to each shearer. (2.) The employer shall provide a grindstone if and when the same shall be required. (3.) When machines are used the employer shall provide all machinery and oil: Provided that every shearer shall pay cost-price for combs and cutters. M). Where rations are provided it shall be the duty of the employer to provide a sufficiency of good food, including butter and jam: Provided that Uib per week shall be, and he deemed to be, a sufficient weekly allowance of butter for each man. (5.) T J ! provisions of the last, preceding paragraph shall apply whether the cooking is done 17 contract or otherwise. (6). Wnere a diningroom is provided the same shall be sufficiently lighted until 9 p.m. NO DISCRIMINATION.

7. No employer shall in the conduct of iiis business or in the engagement or dismissal of men discriminate against members of the union, nor shall any employer do anything for the purpose of injuring the union directly or indirectly: Provided that nothing herein contained shall prejudice the right of the, employer to dismiss any man for incompetence or misconduct. 8. Any shearer absenting himself from work without leave or without other reasonable grounds, or found bringing intoxicants to the premises shall be guilty of misconduct within t'.ie meaning of the last preceding clause. 9. 'When members of the union and nonmembers are employed together there shall be no distinction between them, and both shall work together in harmony and shall receive equal pay for equal work. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 10. Every shearer shall with'all reasonable despatch shear the shsep requiring to be shorn, and in good time and injn workmanlike manner to the satisfaction of the employer. The number to be shorn shall (approximately) be agreed upon by and between the employer and the shearers' representative at the commencement of the shearing. 11. It shall be the duty of the shearers to elect a representative on whom shall devolve the duty of settling all disputes between themselves and the employer. Provided that the employer, if he considers the sheep too wet to he shorn, may turn them out. I 12. All sheep shall be taken carefully from the catching pen, and no sheep shall be "legged out" unless by the permission of the employer. No shearer shall kick or otherwise illtreat any sheep. 13. If and when a sheep has been seriously cut, it shall be the duty of the shearer who has shorn the sheep to at once report the fact to the employer. 14. The employer may require any shearer who has turned out a sheep badiy cut or insufficiently tarred to sew and tar the wounds, or otherwise to treat and dress the wounds. But, except in so fur as by this clause provided, it shall not be ths duty of any shearer to tar sheep. 15. No shearer shall be required to shear any sheep suffering from any infectious disease. 16. It shall be the duty in every case of the employer to "dag" his sheep; but shesp dagged throe weeks before the commencement of the shearing shall be deemed to be clean, and a maximum of fifteen per centum shall be allowed for sheep that have been missed by the <jmployer. 17. There shall be no limitation to tho number of learners in any shed. 18. An agent; of the union duly authorised in writing shall have the right to visit any shed during the shearing. Such agent shall notify the employer of his presence in every case, and he shall have no right to interfere with the shearers during . working hours. 19. Subject to the provisons herein contained, every employer shall have the fullest control over the shearing-shec', and may make such rules as he thinks expedient for the

proper management of the same. 20 Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to apply to the members of any employers' family, who may be employed by him to shear his own sheep.

TERMS OF AWARD. 21. This award shall come into force on the 14th day of April, 1908, and shall continue in force until the 31st day of March, 1910. In witness whereof the seal of the Court of Arbitration hath hereunto been put and affixed, and the Judge of the said Court hath hereto set his hand, this 4th day of April, 1903, W. A. SIM, Judge. MEMORANDUM. This award embodies the agreement of the parties. The maximum penalty payable for , any breach of the Award is £IOO, and the Court has ordered that the Award shall take effect from April 14th, 1908, and shall continue in force untli March 31st, 1910.