A. AND P. WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 205, 18 May 1918, Page 10

A. AND P. WORKERS

NEW DEMANDS OUTLINED. The conference of the New Zealand Agricultural and Pastoral Workers' Union was continued in the Accountants' Chambers, Johnston Street, yesterday. Mr. A. Cook presided. A sub-oommittee set up for tho purpose of framing demands for new conditions made the following report:— Wages for mustorers, shepherds, and puckers.—Wnere musterers aro engaged by the day the wages shall bo 17s. Gd. per day. When engaged by the week or for a term less than three months tho wages shall bo not less than ,£t 15s. perweek. Where mustorers are called upon to do snow-raking the wages shall be £1 50. per day. Packers shall be paid 15s. per day, or >£3 10s. per week. Yearly Shepherds.—Shepherds engaged by the year shall be paid not less than .£l5O per annum. Shepherds engaged by the wjok for a lesser ternv than three months shall be paid at the rate of £i 15s. per week..

Condition's.—ln each case food of food quality, together with adequato accommodation, shall bo provided by employers. Musterors' horses shall be kept shod and fed at the expense of tho employer. The employer shall provide adequate sleeping huts at each sunset camping place, and in addition there shall be fuel for cooking glirposes supplied by the employer at each camping hut. The employer shall provide watertight oilcloth or in some other way supply means to keep the workers' clothes dry while in transit from camp to camp. Musterers shall be paid the foregoing rates from tho day they leave home until their return, home, with travelling expenses added'. The report was adopted on the motion of Mr. S. Borehnm (Dunedin), seconded by Ifr. A. King (Tiniaru). The demands will be submitted to the employers in due course.