WORK AND WAGES.
THE TIMARU TROUBLE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Tininrn, Last Night. The District Executive of tho Farmers' Union to-day expressed great disgust at the action of the wharf laborers in striking for so trivial a reason as an objection to two railwaymen, and members said that from what they had heard in the country there would be no difficulty in petting men to come to town to work boats. Members themselves, mostly elderly well-to-do farmers, said that .they. wouJd come themselves rather than see the union win on such grounds as they had. The executive decided to invite applications from farmers' sons to work the port until the unionists resume.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 173, 9 December 1912, Page 8
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111WORK AND WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 173, 9 December 1912, Page 8
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