SHEARERS’ DISPUTE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3314, 18 October 1919, Page 7

SHEARERS’ DISPUTE.

3“'L7LL SETTLEMENT R‘nl.=\Cl-lED_ I The last link to an agreement for New Zealand in connection with the Sheai-era’ Union was held this aftoinoon at the Conciliation Council be-‘ fore Mr‘T. I-larle Giles,‘ Conciliationl Colnnli=siollel'. This affects the largest body of employers in the Dominion. The dispute was filed by Messrs VV. G. .Skerl'ott, ‘William Bruce, and .How:u'=l Kenw_ay, of Gisborne, and. the sheepowners of Poverty Bay nad East. Coast" districts. Mr F_. H. Lavall represented the sheep owners and_Mr C. Grayndler (Wk-liington) the New Zealand Shearcrs’ and Shed I-lands’ Union of VVorkers_ ‘ I

The hours of Work were fixed at 5 I am. to 5 p.m., with intervals for meals and smoking. The rate of pay for shearing by hand is not to be less than ‘ ;£l 10/ per 100,‘ with rations; Where‘ ‘L;-.hea.l-ers find themselves in rationsj these rates are to" be increaseE{§ 3%/' per LOO‘ Tim rates for hogget rams ‘ “to be rate and 21-half, and for other rams, double. All sheep shorn are to be paid for at the end of the slieai-ing._ .A 1-epi-aiseiitative shall be elected by ‘the shearers, and shall with the person in charge; as far as possible. s§€— tle all disputes. No shearer is to bring -1 sheep on the board after the hell rlllgs_ Pay for shed hands was fixed as follows:——Presscl-s, £3 10/ per week, 01" 2/ by the hour; otl’l'el' ‘shed hands, £3 5/, or 1/10 per hour; youths over 15 and under 18 years, £2 10/ per week. or 1/6 per hour; cooks, .84, assistants, £3 10/. Nothing in the award is to apply to any member of an employer’s family 'ol‘ to children under 16 yeal's.uf age. or ' 1:-ermallent hands. ‘ ‘