WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 302, 14 May 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

THE SHEARER'S DISPUTE, By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last night. I 1 urther negotiations have taken place between the Shearers' Association and the Sheep Owners' Federation, and as a result a conference between the parties, will be held in Wellington on June 4tb concerning the demands recently formulated by the shearers. The owners were asked some weeks ago to meet the men's representatives on questions of wages and conditions, the principal one relating to blade shearers, for whom 22s Gd per hundred is asked, and the owners replied they could not attend a conference on the date suggested (May 7). The sherers' executive then decided to drop negotiations, and advise the 1 men not to enter into engagements to shear ' during the coming season, as it wag "fat that if a conference could not be held now and some agreement reached on the demands, there would be no time to • obtain a new award through the Court, f before shearing begins again, and the men would thus have to continue another year under the old award. KVethe announcement of the men's, executive s decision, the mftttec has been re- il opened, with the result stated above. The names of the owners' representatives are not known yet, but the shearers delegates at the conference will lie Messrs. Cooper (President), King (Tiwaru), Johnston (Ashburton), Townsend (Blenheim), Mcßae (Masterton), Boon < (Christchureh), and M. Laracy (secretary. 1 THE TIMARU TROUBLE. ' •' Timaru, Last tfight. ! Lite watersiders resumed work to-day . '! .on the Union Company's steamers with J some free labor in the trucks. No forma! statement appears to liaife been ' made, but it is apparent that the strike is oil". The dispute, however, does sot •"» | concern-work on the Union Company's >'■ | boats, but some boat loading meat killed by non-unionists. Some unionists are k grumbling at the Federation for incon-'i :t l' sistency in approving of ceasing work ' here on such meat, while making no ob- •> jection to the like at Lyttelton. The railway men, who struck as members 6f 1 the Waterside Union, are all back, and talk of separating and forming an independent union. The Employers' Committee met this morning, anil work beine resumed had nothing to do except to determine to keep prepared to meet the next refusal to work vessels. A REVIVED DISPUTE. ' Dunedin, Last Night. Application for a hearing by the Council of Conciliation lias been filed by Mr. I*. J. Sullivan and the Uneeda Trawling* < Company, the Dunedin Trawlers' Union 1 being cited as the other party to the-.« dispute. A somewhat similar application was filed by the men in February, and ' an agreement was arrived ,at before the ■ I Conciliation Commissioners, but' when the agreement enme up last Wednesday 1 for consideration by the Arbitration- ! Court the Union asked that the dispute J be struck out, and this was dono. The employers are now reversing the usual procedure, and are asking that the terms; of the agreement be made into an award. The Commissioner will consequently goover the dispute once more, the re-hear- ! ing being set down for June 12.