FARMERS AND LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 38, 14 August 1919, Page 3

FARMERS AND LABOUR

AN INTERESTING CONFER- .. ENCE. . ,

'(»! TKLBGRAPH.—SPECIAL 10 THE POST.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A conference was held on Tuesday between the executive of the Auckland branch of the Farmers' Union and representatives of the Federation of Labour and the New Zealand Labour Party, at which matters of political importance were discussed. Mr. J. Boddie, president of the Farmers' Union, presided, and Mr. T. Bloodworth, president of the Federation of Labour, headed the Labour delegation. The conference was the outcome of a remit adopted by the provincial conference of the Fanners' Union. This provided for the appointment of a literature committee, consisting of representatives of, Labour and the Farmers' Union, to compile leaflets showing the conditions of trade as evidenced by the j cost of production and the prices received by producers, and the cost of distribution and prices charged to consumers; I the leaflets to be given the widest circulation, in order to prevent the present : misunderstanding' cf the position, particularly by the working classes. The remit also asked the executive to arrange for a conference between the Farmers' Union and Labour unions. The. basis of discussion on.Tuesday was the platform of the . Labour Party, among the planks dealt with being proportional representation, reconstitution of the Upper _ House, removal of the political disabilities of women, and full ' civil rights for State employees. A committee representative of both bodies was appointed, subject to the approval of the Labour organisations, to prepare the] literature referred to. It was arranged to hold a meeting to discuss other planks of the Labour platform.