THE SHEARERS' UNION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 8

THE SHEARERS' UNION.

! ;? AND ORGANISING;,■ '■' (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent) '„ . .' -; : : ■ : A : .0 ■"'•!■:';-! ,15. v ■; The'--officers ', of.. New. 'Zealand Shearers (lind'bfhor. piistoral employees) Union have not •yet' been notified, of the registration ■"• of -the .luiion iunder the Industrial Conciliation and ; Arbitration' 'Act.".. :tjpine three .weeks 'ago ;the 'Depa'rtmehi:- of Labour informed the general /secrotary. of. the. .union, that the proposed -rules "of'the- [union were, being .'considered by -the Crown 'lew. officers.: The probable explanation of tho' delay'; is t considered to .be .that, as:'>the union-.is >breakiiig .new.-grt'snd :.{in proposing io.'-iengage iinV_direct r .political.'action and-' to 'have-.tlie'Dominion .treated as.one industrial district as far, .as the members were concerned) ■the>'i)ffiartm>nt' is having the proposed rules through. ■ ...... \: ■ : "; At', present the Wellington branch of J the ;union-""ha3-two, organisers,;at ■ work, Messrs. H. Hawkins and E. \V. Abbott, who are operating in,the Hnwke's Bay and'iWairarapaftKetricis. A third organiser is to be appointed to work'' the' jWanganni'' and ■ Kangitikei. ; districts. it:ie probable that, 'on., the completion oi their wofkv.forj th'e 'branch; , arrangements wfll ,be ,'made ■ to have 'all three sent into ;the Auckland and ; Gisborne_ [districts. ■', /Mr. ;M. another'organiser,; will operate .in \S6jitWaiid,'.under' the:"auspicos-,of- the Otago "branchy Mr. P.;J. : DuTcy, general.secretary p! , tbe ,,l iini6'n',''''who. has'/been in Chfistchnrch-dur-ing tlte past week, leaves, 'about: the.: end .'of .this-v L .district,'.and will'visit, the different .'sheep ■ stations; there..