SHEARERS' CLAIMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 10

SHEARERS' CLAIMS

V, DISPUTE BEFORE CONCILIATION :V; COMMISSIONER ; ;• ■. NO SETTLEMENT ■".-.'•'. .. The shearers' dispute came before the Conciliation Commissioner. (Mr. W. H. Hagger) •in Wellington-yesterday. .. The employers' assessors were: Messrs, Hugh jAlorison, Greytown; Archibald . Clark.''Fo'atherston;. and Ewen A. CampDell, Wanganui. Mr. D.' Jones, Dunsandel, appeared' as agent for the employers. The employees' assessors were; Messrs. C. Grayndler, J. Leyland, J. Townsend. : ; ■ .'. The dispute was filed by William Barton. (Fatherston) and Alexander Donald M'Leqd (Martinborough), both employers. . The: employers offered the " existing .award, with'a ss. bonus on tlio £1 per 100 rate for shearing. Some of the provisions of the- existing.'', awards are:— Hours of work: 5 a.m. to 5 p.m., or 5.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.ni, with intervals for meals and smokingt.oh Saturday, to 4 p.m.; shearing, rates' £h per hundred with rations, or 235. : without rations; shed-hands' hours, during the shearing 'time and such extra time as to".clean-.up" the shed up bours a week; shed-hand, wages, pfessers and wool-rollers, 15s. per. week, or Is. 2d. an, hour: or at niece-work rates, as "agreed upon; all other 'shed-hands £1 12s. (id., per week.ior -ls,\ld. an hourr. cook's, £2 per week;/cook's assistant, £1 12s.'6d. per week; rations.to i be provided by. the employer in each case, or 15s.- per week extra.-

The emnloyees' counter-claims -were, briefly-.—Hours, 7.30 a..in, to 5.30 'p.m., -. and. to 12' noon on Saturdays,, with intervals for meals and smoking; shearing rates, 7s. 6d. per 100; crutching, 6s. ' per. 100, 7s. for crutching and'wigging, per day and found; ; shed-hands'. . rates: of • pay, -£3 per week and found; : wool-pressing. M per week, 2s. pet- bale, or.9d. per cwt:.;.- cooks',: £i to £& per week;"cook's'assistants, £3-per week and found. -■ ■ '■■. The employees.' declined. to ..accent v the ■employers'.- terms." and the; dispute' was referred to the Arbitration Court. , Sheet'steer-is .'becoming., .scarcer' and '. scarcer; -and since- it -is used ■in the A manufacture, of the famous.Victor Tat, the makers ofo dubious as to whether the ■■. season's orders can be.filled. Tit .t-rder to make fairly certain, put. yourranie on '■'.' the list:straightway.'and your Vat will 1» delivered in rotation. A. .1. Parton, Sheet Steel and Plumbing Works, Pembroke. Street,' Carterton.—Advt.

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