WORK AND WAGES.
_i:XI()N OFKiCIAI.'K IjrKMH llKll.W'lol'li. NYIA'KV. l-\-Ji. :',. A dispute- between tin- rival Shearers' Unions is being investigated lv a Royal Commission. When a select coining lee of I In- House of jbipiired into I lie mailer. Mr !.e a hv, .secretary of the Machine Slilmi-its" I'nioii, refused lo give evidence. Alter the lioyal Commission's examination of olliciah of llio Australian Workers' I nion,. Mr Leahy entered the witness box : but lie threw the ilihleon the desk exclaiming. "I decline to lv sworn." He refused to give any reason for his action, and left the box. Counsel for the Workers' Union expressi<l his indention <f calling the oMioials of the Machine Shearers' I'nion. 'then, he sakl, it would be seen whether there was anything amounting to conspiracy afoot.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1904, Page 3
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129WORK AND WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1904, Page 3
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