THE SHEARERS' DISPUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 16 July 1910, Page 5

THE SHEARERS' DISPUTE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Christchurch, Yesterday.

Mr. Pryor, for the employers, told the Arbitration Court to-day that they found it impossible to arrange a Dominion conference in the shearing case. The employers would give a complete undertaking that they would accept any price between 17s 6d and 20s, and desired to bind the executive of the union to take no steps to interfere with workers accepting work at the minimum rate. The union representatives did not appear to-day, and the Court announced that as the case had been adjourned till July 26 the matter must stand over. The Court's action then would depend on what happened in the interim.

A LETTER FROM LARACY, CRITICISES JUDGE SIM.

Chrstchurch, Last Night,

Mr. Laraey, general secretary of the Shearers' Union, in a letter to the Minister of Labor, alleges thai the judge of the Arbitration Court gave the employers the "tip" that all they had to do was to sit tight regarding their demand for 17s (id per 100, and that in so doing he practically gave the decision of the Court before the equitv of the shearers' demand for 20s had been considered. Mr. Laraey appeals to Parliament to protect not only the shearers, but all workers, and adds: "Later on, it may be considered necessary, in order to protect shearers against future judicial coercion, to bring down a special Bill providing for wages and conditions of shearers all over the Dominion in the same way that the Factories Act provides for the various classes of workers."