CAPITAL V. LABOUR.
SHEARERS' MANIFESTO. (BY ELKCTHIU TBLKGK.U'H.—COPYUIUIIT.) Mkmwuunk, August 14. Tun Shearers' Union has issued a manifesto to the effect that in consequence of the Pastoralists , Union having declined to have further dealings with the Union unless the sheep-owners were allowed the option of employing Union or nonUnion labour, there is nothing left but to fight the matter out to the end. At a meeting of delegates from the Pastoralists, Shipowners, and Stevedores' Associations it was determined to make a firm stand. The stevedore's iabourers are said to be firm in their determination not to handle wool shorn by nonUnion men. August l."i. The Shearers' Union are making preparations to prevent the shipping of uon-Union shorn wool and a systematic boycott lias been established. On the other hand sheepowners and employers of labour are completing arrangements to resist the attack of the Unionists. Fearing a strike the Railway Commissioners have secured a fortnight's supply of coal and have arranged for further supplies to run tlirs trains in the event of the strike being a protracted one.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2823, 16 August 1890, Page 2
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