FARMING & UNIONISM
SOME OP THE DIFFICtJLTIES.
flfof I«2«itwjib.—Fi'«;ir Asscciatipij,} Harodton, April 20. tha cfoot of the fahaui 4 award oil Farms was distmsscd at the annual meetiag, of tit© Hamilton branch of the Farmers' Union. th» <Mr. B. jM'Gregof) Sftid farms could ohjy be run under trades union conditions by the cnrtaihneijt of fto.rk, ivhioh froUld result in the farms producing only Mr their present capacity, in-which ca«o"th«j whole comwtmtty would suffer. So did not ob}«ct so modi to hlghor Wages as to the restrictive -conditions of the awnrd, siich α-s W«*e obfjorved m slvippiiig and fit(iusirki spheres. Sueh conditions wore impossible' to the farmer. En iirpod that wh«n farmers received gootl prie»s ftey should give higher wages, oased uftfc enl;v on supply and demand, but on ; the amount mn'h out of the men's labour. WliMt Fnj-h»r3' prices wcru goqelj farmers sliowH stitisfy'tho men by giv-1 ing ft just tpflge. Thay slianld treat the men {airly, !wd thus fight tiro position taken up'by the I.W.W. and )tinflred flrgaflisatiofls. •
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2128, 21 April 1914, Page 7
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168FARMING & UNIONISM Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2128, 21 April 1914, Page 7
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