ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 143, 26 September 1910, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

THE SHEARERS' AW4RD. V By Telegraph.—Press Association. L' Wellington, Saturday, [; The Arbitration Court decided, in connection with the Wellington shearers' dispute, that the geiJeVal conditions would be the same as,ncav applied in Canterbury. The rates f6r hand shearers' were fixed &Undt less than 20s per 'hundred witbL.jjatioiift lambs 18s tkl with rations. Whet* llje shearers find their- own rite is to be increased. by 3s peV&undJed. The .rate for stud sheep is toijlue agrieed upon by employers and employes. Hogget rama are to be shorn at pate and a half. The terms of the award is three years from date. Practically |tb.e only question in dispute was the hitjes. of pay. The Court has inserted a e»M'3e/ with the purpose of making it the union or any member ,of sie flW n ., to attempt to prevent workers 'tts|j|j accepting employment at the Wtptt fixed by the award. yl o' EMPLOYEES' REPRESENaa'TIVBV'' HOPEFUL. *r* -\\ '■ Wellington, Last NightJfv Sir, Laracy, the shearers' represents* tive, interviewed subsequent to the proceedings in'the Arbitration Court, stated that the award had .been made' and the men would abide hy it, but for .all that the men had resolved to shear only for £1 per 100 all round, ~ and there was nothing to compel them to do otherwise. It was in the men's own hands whether they would engage or not. The position now was exactly as it was before. They were nio further ahead.? Asked if there was a* possibility of «hearers coming from Australia, Mr. Laracy said he did not think SO'. Even if men did coma, he had good reason to believe they would not engag» excepting at the rate the Union diesired. He had sent the following cablegram to Australia to-day: "Editor Worker, Sydtney,—Award £1; blades, }9s 6d machines. Men here solid* for £1 all round before engaging." . .'Mr Laracy repeated that as the award was fixed, the men would refrain from working. Alteration in the rates would mean the 'loss of thousands of pounds to the shearers in the Wellington district. In the old award there was a clause allowing 2s 6d per 100 for daggdng. This has been deleted, and the men again suffered. Mr. Laracy pointed out that two years ago. in Wellington the employers met the shearers, am I it was almost 'Unanimously agreed that shearing was worth £1 per 100. In Canterbury, several years ago, the shearers' case was exhaustively gone into : before the Count, and the rate was fixed there at IBs per 100. Now; siter two years, the same Court said that shearing in Canterbury was worth £1 per 100 for blades, and in the North Islands, where it was formerly'agreed on that £1 be the rate hy practical men, the Court had made a reduction to the equivalent of 2a 6d or 3s per 100.

Mr. Pryor, the employers' representative, interviewed, said the.shearers had to be congratulated on the Court's lib-' eral treatment. He felt sure the shearera would accept the award, and all possibility of trouble would be avoided. Employers felt satisfied! with the Court's intimation that the conditions laid down in the Canterbury dispute would be the conditions in-all awards, making one set for the whole Dominion.