Canterbury Laborers.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 20, 21 July 1911, Page 12

Canterbury Laborers.

DEMANDS OF UNIGN. Tho Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Laborers'* Union are submitting a new scale of wages to the Canterbury She-.p-ov.riei ■.-/ Union and others. The rates asited for are modest enough in all con-science. Yet the securing of them wih mean a naprovemeut in the conditions 01 men engaged i>i ti-o : _"'•"• ib-i mimimum for day wages is Is . hour, except in »» - t j...... - «*', niusterers, not than oj o. r a-r.v engaged for less than a mo-nth, or not less than £'3 a wteiC ix engaged rur a longer period; an :adoitioiii,l pa\ioc>ii. of 15s for any Sunday that n.ay he worked. The lnin'.iuum vor pioug.i men h; 27s Oi; :>">■; for lo'dkers; iov, o abouts and fencers 2/sod per weeri and found. wages ror iiaiVvii \,-o^e-_s: Carters or drivers on harvest macf.merv £2 15s and iouiui. stuoiiers, formers, and stacice-rs £.~J 10* a lit. found if employed ov the we.-X, Is od per hour if .employed by tho _ 1.-i.-. Stackers £3 per woe* and lound ; it by tho horn- Is Gd per hour and round. Other demands dealing with food, accommodation., hours <.f iabd'. overtime and boy labor are also included in the schedule. F Keniiody, secretary of the Canterbury Hum wre.es tnat the Farmers' Union declines to meet representatives of the Laborers' "union in coniereiK c, on tne grounds that it has no power to enter into an agreement. The Onion, consequently, hano option but to cite the iarnias before- the Court of Arbitral-en, and is taking the necessary steps to do so. The last time the workers tried to secure an award it cost the Union over £bOO to ngnt the case and it got nothing. It v.-ili take a good deal m this instance, but not so much, noi\ it is hoped, taice twelve months to reach a decision. The executive of the Farm Laborers' Union wul be giad if country workers throughout iSew a ~ land will subscribe to the fighting fund i*or this'case. It is their hgnt as well as that ot the Canterutu-y larm laborers Any subs, will be received and acknowledged if sent to E- Kennedy, Trades Hail, Christchurch.