SHEARERS’ DEMANDS.
TROUBLE IN AUSTRALIA. THREAT OF A STRIKE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 17, 10.30 p.m. Sydney, June 17. Serious trouble threatens the pastoral industry. Mr. Lambert, secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union, has issued an ultimatum declaring that unless the pastoralists grant the union’s demands, consisting of the application of tftfe Queensland shearers’ award to New South Wales, 30,000 shearers will immediately strike. Mr. Lambert states that at a compulsory conference on June 9 the pastoralists refused to consider any agreement regulating wages and conditions for the coming season. The Queensland award provides £2 per hundred for shearers, £4 10s weekly for shed hands and a forty-four hour week.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1921, Page 5
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113SHEARERS’ DEMANDS. Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1921, Page 5
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