AUSTRALIAN SHEARERS
SU BSTA NT! AL INCREA SES DEMANDED
(By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
SYDNEY, This Day
The Australian Workers’ Union issued an official statement that unless substantial increases are nfade in the present rate of remuneration shearers and other workers in the pastoral industry will refuse to sign on during the coming season. There was widespread discontent last season as the federal rate was 7/- below the Queensland rate under the .State award. The Union has prepared demands for presentation to the Arbitration Court asking for £3 per hundred for flock sheep, with proportionate increases in all other piece, rates. The present rate, except in Queensland, is 38/-. For sited hands the claim is £6 and keep. The rale at present is £3/15/10 and keep. The secretary of the Graziers’ Association said lie did not expect trouble. He was quite prepared for the men now signing on without hesitation for early sheds.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 6 May 1925, Page 5
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