UNITY OF FARMERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 23, 10 November 1944, Page 4

UNITY OF FARMERS

Nero fiddles while Rome burns!— 'There's a breathless nush on the swamp tonight Butter to make and the trade , (With apologies to Lord Tennyson). And still no unity! Mr McCracken in his letter appearing in your edition of October 27 certainly has missed the essential point. And that is 'Action' Sir. Mr McCracken mentions a recent letter setting out the special reasons for the day in reply to D.F.A.'s request. These reasons have been appreciated and are accepted.* Still no action! The whole country knows there is no unity among farmers and that there never has been. Much less since the institution of the Dairy Control Board< So< why be con- . cerned at this juncture, with a split in the industry? The dairy farmers right throughout the, country are crying for control of their industry to be to their own hands and they to the present recognised leaders of the industry to take the necessary'

Mr iMcuracKen states not long "go his Board sent an invitation to resentatives of both the D.P.A. and the Farmers' Union to meet the Company's Directors for the, purpose of finding some way of joining forcfes and having one organisation to represent the dairy farmers. Because this meeting failed has Mr McCracken thrown the, towel in? Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch says 'Potato is just as good as Turtle soup, so long as you ain't tried the Turtle soup.'. The D.P.A. is still striving to unite the dairy in of all adversities. Last September 5 yet another op-port-unity, was given Mr McCracken to take the lead and endeavour to reach some unanimity among farmers with one aim that of democratic control from the farm up, from the top down j and his replied "That such a meeting I serve no good purpose at present." Sir in the light of the unfair treatment the dairy industry has receive ed and the gradual whittling of their means to produce, how one fathom this reply? The Farmers' Union has failed. save the, industry for the farmer because its leaders have whipped sufficient enhtusiasm into the individual and because 'it never did represent, the dairy farmer. Hence the East Coast Dairy Association passed a unanimous resolution supporting the principle dairy producers having their own organisation. Still no action' In conclusion Sir allow me to invite Mr McCracken to lend us a little, harmony, unity and tion by his presence at the meeting of the Rangitaiki Branch Dairy Producers Association. Yours F. T. MAYO.