THE SHEARERS' DISPUTE.
Nobody who has watched the developments in connection with what is termed the "Shearers' Dispute" imagines ihat the attempt which is to be made by the Conciliation Council in Palmerston North to fix the price to be paid foi shearing in the South Island will prove other than abortive. The ehearers are insistent on one point—they will have £1 per hundred for sheep shorn in all parts of the ccuntry, or they will have nothing at all. In these circumstances, it seems almost a waste of time and money to attempt to either conciliate or arbitrate. The shearer is in the happy position that he can almost dictate his own ! terms. If the Conciliation Council and Arbitration Court refuse his demand for £1 per hundred, he can say, "Very well, gentlemen, I refuse to shear." The employer has absolutely no legal redres. The shearer has him, metaphorically speaking, "by the wool." The time may yet come when legislation will be required to repress labour trusts and combines as it is to regulate combines in trade.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 10 August 1910, Page 4
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178THE SHEARERS' DISPUTE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 10 August 1910, Page 4
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