MAORI SHEARERS.
REFUSE TO WORK. GISBORNE, October 4. Shearers were about to start work to-day at Faulkner's station, Muriwai, sixteen miles from Gisborne, when the local union secretary appeared on the scene and conferred with the men. After the conversation, whatever it was, the shearers, who are natives, tlirew down: their shears and refused to proceed. They had engaged to shear with blades at twenty shillings per hundred and three shillings extra per hundred for "finding" tnemselves. After tlie conversation with the union secretary the men told the emnloyers they would not shear except they got twenty shillings per hundred and found in rations by the emplovers. The men then left the shed. A meeting of sheep owners of the district is to be held to-morrow to ■discuss the position. It is considered almost certain they will not agree to the men's demands.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10112, 6 October 1910, Page 5
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143MAORI SHEARERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10112, 6 October 1910, Page 5
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