SHEARERS' SECTION

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 64, 31 May 1912, Page 3

SHEARERS' SECTION

SECRETARY'S NOTE-BOOK.

3y IV!. LARACY.

,I,ir;:Tho Maoriland Worker" of lOlh ijist.. there appeared an appeal for assist a.nco -for Joe Grey, belter known as • "the old. grey mouse." Joe is a rough diamond, and one of the most coiisi--tent battlers in the cause of laboi it has been my luck to meet. lie fears no man, and is always on deck ready to take up the cudgels for the workers. Ir, three years he wiJl he entitled lo a pension, and no man will have earned it more than he who is known far and wide as old Joe Grey. 1 trust the appeal from the Canterbury General Labourers will not be in vain. * # * So far as the relations between the Australian Pastoralists' l-nions and the shearing contractors a.re concerned, i; is interesting to note that the Pa.itocalists' Federal Council has agreed to the following resolution: —"That in view of the strong hold which tin- con tractmethod of conducting shea.-ing operations has got on the pastor il induslrv of the States, the federated bodies and tut- Federal Council would suppo-L members and the registered contractors in maintaining the present system. ' The tw< bodies met. on A?a roll 5 and __ij hist, and came to an ag'-eement m a scheme of registration of contractors and a form of agreement. Letters addressed lo the following are waiting to bo claimed at tho Sheepfarmers' Labor Exchange, 100 Hereford street, Christchurch, N.Z,—viz., J. Morle-y, J. Rutler (-.), J. Maekay, T. Wards, Aitkens, F. Grennell, J.owry, 0. Isles, Geaves, W. Schuppe, J. Gaudy (2), J. Noill, If.an.cock, BL MeGreggor, S. Hingley, E.• Oasler (2), K. Carisen; C. Courier, J. W. Stewart, H. Whitte, J. Campbell, 11. 0. Mcintosh, J. E. Hollis, W. H. Carter, S. Harrison. Why not get letters sent care Shearers' Association?