SHEARERS' DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3154, 4 August 1917, Page 10

SHEARERS' DISPUTE

'CONCILIATION COURT HEARING. By Telecraph—Press Association. Dunedin, August 3. The Conciliation Court sat to-day to heal , a dispute brought by tho Sheepowners against the Otago" and Southland Shearers' Union.' The owners offered 203. per hundred for slice]) or lambs, and 3s. per hundred extra if tho shearers found themselves; pressors and wool rollers,. 355. a week, or Is. 2d. an hour; other shed hands, 325. lid. a week, or Is. Is. an hour;'cooks, £2 a week; cooks' assistants, 325. (id. If a worker provided •his own rations, the rates to be increased 15s. The shearors'askod for 275. Gd. per hundred for sheep, with rations; stud or double-fleeced sheep, rams or ram etags, double rates; shed hands, £3 a we»k and ftrand, or Is. Gd. hour; wool pressors, £i a week, 2s. a bale, or 9d. a cwt.; cooks, £± a week for 20 men, £i between 20 and 30 men, ,£G qver 30 men, and found in each case; cooks' assistants to be found where there are 2fl men or over, and;'paid not less than £'i a week. The owners agreed to pay a war bonus of 7s. Gd. to shearers ;with regard to shed hands. They offered 375. Gd. a week nnd 30s. to lads under 18, or 13. 3d. and Is. an hour.