SHEARERS ON THE WARPATH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 8

SHEARERS ON THE WARPATH.

AUSTRALIAN UNION'S DEMANDS. The demands set forth by the executivo of the Australian Workers' Union on behalf of . the shearers, shed, and station hands are described by a writer in the ''Adelaide Register" as a blow to the pas-, tornlists. "To the-majority," he says, "they hare coino as a veritable shock. Some of these demands are intensely re-ii-tshinj:. Shedhands are not to be allowed to work (i-e., yard, or place out in •the sun)-sheep thc.t the shearers have declared wet. Apparently the boss and the storekeeper will have to take on this task, or possibly the boss and his wife and family, for they will be about the only people outside tho pale of the union. One shed hand is to be engaged to wait upon each shearer, lest the latter be delayed in making his tally. Presumably, «lso, he will tender similar service at meals (the orthodox number of which is eeven), and call his lordship in good time to swallow his early tea before venturing upon the board. In the event of any delay on the part of the boss in getting ehoep into the shed if work' is started, no matter how short a time, the day is to be counted as a whole one. If by eome accident of law, such as occurred at the last arbitration award—when shearers who sought 225. a hundred were tnocked silly by getting 21s.—file above BUggosfced regulations come into force, there ought no longer to be any doubt in the minds of pastoralists as to where the supply of shearers is to come from."