SHEARERS' WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1768, 5 June 1913, Page 8

SHEARERS' WAGES.

AN ABORTIVE CONFERENCE. A conference of delegates from tho Shecpowners" Federation and the Naiv Zealand Shearers and Woolshed Employees' Association of workers was held yesterday to discuss wages and working conditions. The conference lasted some two hours and ti half, but no agreement was arrived at on any of tho points in dispute, and the conference was declared at an end. Tho demands of the sheavors were 225. Od. for 100 for blade shearing, and 20s. for machino shearing, but tho sheepowners' representatives, it is understood, refused to grant ,E1 per 100 all round, promising only the terms of tho present award. Mr. Jl. Laracy, secretary of tho Shearers' Association, informed a Dominion reporter last night that tho shearers would not strike, but would simply mako tho best terms they could obtain for them, selves, refusing to accept work at rates less than those set forth in their demands. Tho following cablegram had, ho said, been sent to the Australian Workers' Federation in Sydney:—"Conference with sheopowners abortive. Advise shearers stay away." 110 stated also that advertisements would lio inserted in tho workers' newspapers throughout Australia advising shearers not to come to New Zealand unless they could got the/terms the association demanded. f