SHEARERS REFUSE TO WORK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10117, 12 October 1910, Page 3

SHEARERS REFUSE TO WORK.

A GISBORNE EXPERIENCE

Up to recently nothing specialliati transpired in the Gisborne district (says the Poverty Bay Herald) regarding the position of the shearing industry, excepting that most of the shearers had. pledged themselves not to make engagements unless £1 per hundred and found were the terms offered them. A f6'w days ago, however, the. first dispute took place, when something in the form of a strike ocurred at Mr A. J* Faulkner's shed at Wairakaia. "

Mr J. L. Baker informed the Herald that he and Mr F. S. Bowen agreed with some shearers to do a little 'dry' shearing for 23s a hun« dred, the men to find themselves. In the morning they were all ready to start, when Mr J. K. Morgan, the secretary of the Shearers' Union, appeared on the scene, and the men announced that they would not start unless they were paid £1 and found. This the owners refused to agree to, and consequently the men left. The sheep had been driven about four or five miles 'to Mr A< J. Faulkner's shed, Mr Baker acting on behalf of the East Coast CommissioneVs. There were a number of sheep in the shed and another lot on the road, and the men .thought that when the sheep arrived the owners would give way; but they did not, and they set about to do the work themselves with their weekly hands. Mr Baker further stated that the offer they made to the men was in compliance with the Canterbury award, but it appeared the local shearers wanted an award of their own.

"I don't know anything about it," declared Mr J. K. Morgan, when spoken to regarding the matter. "I am not an organiser or a shearer, but only a secretary, and I can't tell the men what to do. When I got there I heard that the men were not going to work because MiBaker would not give them £1 and found, acording to the Dominion award. I had nothing to do with the men knocking off. It was Mr Baker who stopped them. He said he would turn the sheep out." Mr Morgan further stated that the offer of 23s and not found was according to the award, but as to who had to say which terms were to be selected,.the owners or the shearers, he coiild not say.

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