SLOGAN TO SHEARERS.
"KEEP GOING, & PAY THE LEVY."
Mr. M. Laracy, secretary of tho Shearers' Association, made a statement yesterday in regard to the position to bo adopted by tho association. He said that they had been waiting anxiously for a settlement of tho strike. During tho last week ho had received numerous telegrams from shearers all ovor the Dominion, asking if thoy should striko. He advised tliom not to. Now that it was finally stated that thoy could not get a settlement he had sent the following tolegrams:— To tho secretary, Australian Workers' Union, Sydnoy:—Keop shearers and oil labour away from Maoriland. A fight to a finish here.—Laracy. To the executive of the Shearers' Association, convoying the following motion, which ho would move: —"That shearers contiiiuo work, and striko levy of £1 per week, goneral hands 55., while in work during strike time. Fighting to a finish hero."
To Jill shod representatives throughout Now Zealand:—"Keop going, and pay the levy; our mates will icquiro it all, and don't take notice of mulga wires.—Laracy."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1898, 5 November 1913, Page 6
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174SLOGAN TO SHEARERS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1898, 5 November 1913, Page 6
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