UNIONISM ON THE LAND.
SUGGESTION TO FARMERS. §
The effect of a labour award on farms was discussed at ths annual meeting of the Hamilton branch of the Farmers' Union on Saturday. The president, Mr E. McGregor, said that farms could only be run under trades union conditions by the curtailment of work, which would result in farms producing to only half their present capacity, in which case the whole community would suffer. He did not object so much to the higher wages as to the restrictive conditions of an award, such aa were observed in shipping and industrial spheres. Such conditions were impossible to the farmer. He urged that when farmers received good prices they Bhould give higher wages, not only on supply and demand, but only the amount made out of the men's labour. There was a power watching when farmers' prices were good, and farmers should, therefore, satisfy their men by giving a just wage. They should treat their men fairly, and thus fight the position taken up by the I. W.W. and kindred organisations.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 662, 22 April 1914, Page 7
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177UNIONISM ON THE LAND. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 662, 22 April 1914, Page 7
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