"WE WILL NOT BE SHEARERS THIS YEAR."

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12562, 15 July 1910, Page 5

"WE WILL NOT BE SHEARERS THIS YEAR."

ADVICE TO AUSTRALIANS

ADOPT THE "STAY AWAY SYS-

TEM."

CHRISTCHUKCH, July 14

Mr Laracy has sent the following coble message to the "Australian Worker" ;—

"Court case abortive. No chance of settlement now. Advertise the stay-aAvay system and keep tAvo columns of the " Worker" open next week for budget going over. We Avill not be shearers this year."

Asked wrhat v the New Zealand Shearers and Woolshed Employers' Association of "Workers intended doing in view of negotiations for a conference to discuss a Dominion award having failed, Mr Laracy stated that it: was intended to hold ?neetings throughout New Zealand and to go on with the fight, as the employers had again ignored them. At the meetings the whole position, •would be placed before the members of the association, and the manner in .which the employers had treated them would be explained. Members of the ■association would be {xsked to coMrmthe resolutions previously arrived at on' the' question of the rate at which shearing should be done The meeting would also be asked to approve or disapprove of the executive's action, ' and.those of their representatives at the conference with the employers ■■representatives.' He uointed out that the executive in which it had done had simply carried cut the wishes of tlie membi&rs, ;.ind not necessarily those of the executive He states that at the conference to discuss the Dominion award'the fepresenta.tives-<?f the shearers were asked to sign the following: '•That the shearers' -delegates are authorised to deal with the question, of price and-to accent such price as may be agreed upon between 17s 6d and 20s and that the executive bind themselves to take no steps to interfere .with workers accepting work at the minimum Kite agreed uwon at the conference." The shearers' representatives point blank refused to, sign anything so absurd. Mr H Widdell. on being asked what step the Canterbury Shearers' Union intended taking in view of the present state of affairs; replied: "We are looking forward to an amicable settlement cf- the" matters in dispute before the opening of the shearing season."