Shearers' Grievances.
(Per Press Association). Wellington, February 21. Mr J. F. Mercier, of the New Zealand Workers' Union, interviewed the Minister of Labor as to the matters noticed by him in a tour among tbe shearers in the Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa districts. One grievance is mulcting of shearers in exchange of cheques given them, and another is the practice adopted on some of tbe stations of taking out risks witb insurance companies to cover supposed liability under the Employers' Liability Act and stopping the premiums out of the men's cheques. This the Minister con sidered is quite illegal, and he failed also to see the necessity for station holders insuring their men under tbis Act, as their liability under it would be practically nil.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 200, 22 February 1895, Page 3
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