DEATH TO LABOR UNIONISTS.
LATEST TEIiEGRAHS.
Per Press Association. V Auckland, August '2. « At the Farmers' Union meeting today, Mr Flanagan drew attention to the demands by farm labor unions in other parts of the colony. He was apprehensive lest the movement would spread to Auckland province. The demand would seriously affect fanning interests, and ho considered some measure should be adopted to arrest the labor agitation, which was stirring up strife, and making the condition of the omployer tantamount to slavery. "I would sooner take a gun and shoot that man without applying to the law before I would submit quietly to his terms and harassing conditions," the speaker declared. lie moved—"That this executive views with alarm the demands lately, made by farm labor unions in various parts of the colony, and that the exeeulive take steps to combat the demands." Mr Dnxfield seconded the motion, but agreed that some of the demands wore reasonable, although the exigencies of farming made it impossible to grant them. The latter part of the motion was deleted, and the motion then adopted..
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 August 1907, Page 2
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180DEATH TO LABOR UNIONISTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 August 1907, Page 2
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