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AGRICULTURAL WORKERS.

SEEK UTOPIAN CONDITIONS. By Telegraph.—'Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A conference of the New Zealand Agricultural and Pastoral Workers' Union decided to submit the following demands to the employers:—The wages of musterers, shepherds, and packers, where musterers are engaged by day wages, shall be 17s 6d per day; when engaged by the week or for a term less than three months, the wages shall be not less than £4 15s per week; where musterers are called upon to do snowraking, the wages shall he 25s a day; packers shall bo paid 15s a day or 70s per week; shepherds engaged by the year shall be paid not less than £l5O per annum; shepherds engaged by the week or lesser term than three months shall be ipaid at the rate of £4 15s per week. The conditions in each ease to be food of good quality, together with adequate accommodation, shall he provided bv the employers. Musterers' horses shall be kept shod and fed at the expense of the employer. The employer shall provide adequate sleeping huts at each sunset camping-place, and, i n addition, there shall he fuel for cooking purposes supplied bv the employer at each camping hut. The employer shall provide watertight oilcloth, or in some other way supply means to keep the workers' clothes dry while in transit from eamp to camp. A musterer shall he paid the foregoing rates from the day he leaves home until his return home, with travelling er[penses added.

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Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1918, Page 5

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AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1918, Page 5

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1918, Page 5

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