STRIKE OF FARMERS
SUGGESTED, IN MARLBOROUGH. EARLEY PRICES MUCH TOO LOW. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. A belief that under present conditions it would not take much to make farmers go on strike was expressed by Mr J. B. Barnett, at. a meeting of the Blenheim Farmers’ Union. He made the statement, when the price for thisyear’s barley was being discussed, members being of opinion that it was far too. low- and would not pay working expenses. "The. question is whether we. should object,” said Mr Barnett. “If every farmer in New Zealand refused to produce grain, meat and milk it would not be long before the people squealed. The farmer is being driven to it and it would not take much more to make him strike. It would soon bring the Government to its knees.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1939, Page 6
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137STRIKE OF FARMERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1939, Page 6
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