FARMERS AND THE FEDERATION.
NO BARGAIN POSSIBLE.
An explanation of the farmers' attitude towards the Federation of Labor was give.l by the provincial president, Major Lusk, on Wednesday evening, when he headed a deputation to the Mayor of Auckland.
The proposal of an earlier deputation had been that negotiation-i should be opened for a settlement under the Arbitration Act. Major Lusk said he wished to remind the Mayor that the farmers of the province. were as much, concerned as the citizens of Auckland in ensuring an .. effective settlement'of the strike. They were anxious to avoid trouble and. settle matters, but they were not prepared to make any bargain with the Federation of Labor. In a day or two 2000 farmers wojld be within a mile of the waterfront, and they were resolved that if the waterside workers would not handle the farmers' produce which was rotting on the wharves, they would have to do it themselves, and they intended to do s■). The farmers were not going to be to inconvenienced, declare 1 Major Lusk. and in any settlement entered into with the strikers they required to be consulted.
The Mayor agreed with the, views of tin sneaker, and promised that th;> farmers should be consulted. 1 '
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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 November 1913, Page 3
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