"THE LESS SAID THE BETTER.
MS. PRYOR ON SHEARING MATTERS. (By Telegraph:—Press Association.): ' Ounedin,' September 17. , Mr. \7.i Pryor, secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, last nighi ' .received the following telegram from Mr. Riddell, secretary -of:- the:', Canterbury ', Shearers'- Union Federation are Wring a vote vbh.' Saturday for 235. 6d; per hundred;-what steps are you tak- ■ ing?' ■Settlement.;urgent. 1 -''.-Mr. -Pryor replied: .'lEmplbyers will'abide: by' the decisibh'of the: Arbitration Court." Asked tUs-morning'if :he:':had.anything to say about .the;, matter, : ;.,,Mr; ..Pryor.- replied: "TheUess' said .the; better. .I'do.not wish to add'fuel io:the firo: . The position, eo far as ■ the''employers: are-'concerned, is unaltered. If"a-'definite-undertaking is given Tby the Shearers' Union.: that the Court*6. award;..will .be honourably observed, and' that: no: steps will.be taken by .-.the; Shearers' ':Unibn,- to 'prevent men from-shearing" at less than 100, if the Court's'-, award is less; than that • rate,' the employers'/are prepared to:.abide by • whatever decisions may be. arrived at by> the Court, as 'a .result of the recommendation "of, the-'commissibiiers.'' That-is : th» : whole: position,: and if, I. were; to talk for : a week I could "'not .say more." ',
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 925, 19 September 1910, Page 4
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