FARM LABOUR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 75, 16 October 1939, Page 2

FARM LABOUR

THE UNION'S ACTION

SCHEME 13 MEN IN CITIES

A remit that an inquiry be mad©,_ os r.o what has been done by Farmers' Union executive to find lf£p hour for increasing production came forward from the Rangitaiki branch of the Farmers' Union at the subprovincial conference at Edgecumbe on Thursday. Ii was moved by Mr Haullain.

Mr V. S. MolTrit.t (Tauranga) said there had been a confidential nssve 7/ by the Labour Department to get borough councils to plant vegetables using Scheme 13 men on vacant acreages in the towns. The vegetables were to be exported. This was another way by which the Government was trying to cripple primary production.

Mr A. E. Lambert said the executive did everything in its power to get labour on the farms. A representative and influential deputation had waited on the GovernmeiU ing a most emphatic remarks regarding labour problems and the guaranteed price were simply ignored. No answer Viad yet been received.

A motion which stated that representations should b<? made to thy; council of primary production Vthrough their representative in regard to the necessity of providing labour for farmers, the meeting be- . ing of the opinion that unless some action is taken at once not only will production not increase, but it will seriously decrease, was carried.