THE FARMERS' UNION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10558, 14 February 1912, Page 5

THE FARMERS' UNION

[ AND WELLINGTON STRIKES. I A STRONG RESOLUTION. , (By Telegraph —Press Association.) j PALMERSTON N., Last Night. At a meeting of the Advisory Committee of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, held at Palmerstou to-day, the Following resolution was passed: — "That in view of the manner in which the men at the Gear Company's and Meat Export Company's works struck work, this Executive is •strongly of opinion that their demands should be resisted to the utmost, and urges farmers, in their j own interests,, to support the Com- 1 panies by every means in their power, and if a crisis arises, that the producers and their sons, at some personal sacrifice, should even go to the length of providing labour to carry on the industry; that this strike is only another instance of the futility of the Conciliaion and Arbitration Act, which leaves the worker free while placing restrictions on the employers; and this Executive would urge Parliament to provide some more suitable nfeans of adjusting disputes of this nature, which would leave the adjustment to those in the trade and deal summarily with those pernicious agitators who are so often alone responsible for interfering with the harmonious relationship existing 1 between the employers and their omI ployees."