THE FARMERS' UNION.

Shannon News, 9 May 1922, Page 4

THE FARMERS' UNION.

APPEAL FOR LOYALTY. In a circular letter addressed to the various branches of the Farmers’ Union in the Manawatu district, Mr W. J. Poison, Dominion President, says: — “Let me at the outset point out that any movement which tends to weaken our organisation at the present time cannot be for the benefit of the farming community. We never needed unanimity, loyalty to one another,. solidarity and complete organisation so much as we do now. Th,e Farmers’' Union has realised this. I have been appointed to my office through no special merits of my own but simply because I was able to devote some time to organisation, and was a dairyman as well as a sheep-farmer. A scheme of organisation is coming before the next Dominion Conference. As the results of experiments which the Dominion Executive have been making I am going to bring down proposals for a complete staff of lectures and organ isers and a complete scheme of Dominion organisation and I have no doubt the Conference will give it, very sympathetic consideration. But if, in the meantime we farmers dissipate our strength by cutting adrift from the parent organisation and joining up with others, we are only weakening instead of strengthening the general position. ’ ’