WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 227, 23 March 1912, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

ATTITUDE OF THE FARMERS' UNION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. In a letter to the Press regarding the attitude of the New Zealand Farmers' Union in the Auckland province in the present labor deadlock, the president says that the farmers have no quarrel with the Labor Federation and wish to Irnve none. "Do us," he continues, "no injury, and we will do you no wrong, but if you endeavor to damage our trade then in self-defence we must go dead and I may say straight out thajt the farming community will not allow anybody to interfere with or destroy their business, and are quite prepared to assemble a sufficient number of stalwart young farmers, not only to secure the handling and transport of their goods, but to maintain law and order in the city while doing so."

SOUTHLAND THRESHING MILL DISPUTE. Invercargill, Last Night. The secretary «f the Southland General Laborers', and Drivers' Union, who is at present in the Winton district in connection with the threshing mill dispute, has furnished,a report to the preiident of the union, stating that he has visited three mills and was holding a meeting at Winton to-night. He states that the men he has spoken to oi\i •banding solidly for Is per hour and that a number now putting in time at ordinary laboring work will not engage in oat threshing under that sum. So far the work of organising the men has gone smoothly.