N.S.W. Farmers Plan Direct Action For Future
SYDNEY, Aug. 26. Representatives of 9000 New South Wales farmers voted overwhelming in favour of a proposal that farmers should strike or take direct action if it was ever thought necessary. They deci'ded this at the first afinual conference of the New South Wrles division of the Australia Primary Producers' Union. * The union has 51,000 members in Australia. It hones to form one union for all primary producers and will seek registration with the Arbitration Court as an industrial organisation. The conference decided that direct action should be taken only when the fermers in the section of the union demanding it voted in favour at a secret ballot and Federal aird\ State executives approved. The chief oreran^er of the union, Mr. B. G. Dawson, said that direct action might be necessary in the : future when farmers would have I to resist regimentation of pro- ' duction. I Opposing the motion, Mrs. W. A. Foot said the delegates were eon'sidering using the same tactics jthey had condemned ih the miners,
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 August 1949, Page 5
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