THE SHEARING TROUBLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 138, 20 September 1910, Page 5

THE SHEARING TROUBLE.

t WELLINGTON UNION'S ATTITUDE, tj| t By Telegraph.—Press Association.* _ r „ . Wellington, Monday. \ii 3 Mr. E. W. Abbott states that thft'ffil t Wellington Shearers' Union deprecate jffl • the statement by the Canterbury Union- v3| 8 that unless employers agree to its teraul t'si • it will raise the price to 22s 6d per" 'hundred. The Wellinp on Union ad- l-«[j 1 heres to 20s per hundre u . UNION SCERETARY'S STATEMENT.' f JS Wellington, Monday, 4}j§j Writing to the Post re Mr. PryoA 'dji statement at Dunediu that the employ* era were willing to make a settlement <• jfl provided the Shearers' Union gave definite undertaking to abide by the- iff decision of the court, Mr. Laracy Bayßi-\Il such contention is absolutely Neither union nor sheep owners, have .yS any option but to abide by the decision ..IMS " of the court. The Arbitration Act pro-. sll vides for that. The union has signed Alas an undertaking to do so, such under 1 - ? taking being also signed by the repre- v&l sentatires of the employes and 3 considered satisfactory by both parties £ as well as the commissioners, lie '#ll union is still perfectly] willing honour* yfjS ably to abide by its undertaking and><||j| has been willing all along, but the posi* tion now is that two of the commis- r X|| ' sioners (Messrs. Triggs and Bally) de« ' dined at Christchurch to make anjr ■ finding and would not allow Mr. ( the opportunity of so doing. It is ob- ( vious that until the commissioners do-.si make their finding the union has no .l?il opportunity of "abiding honourably by '/Jw it." Mr. Pryor*B statements are just rfrjjj | as usual—the cloud o! dust .raised by jJ|§ the employers all through this dispute,i|||