FARM LABOURERS' UNION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7829, 23 June 1909, Page 1

FARM LABOURERS' UNION.

A meeting of.the Leeaton branch of the Farm Labourers' Union was held •afc- Leeston- on -Friday evening..... Mr J. Kennedy, general secretary, addressed £he x nieeting, stating that the Union hadxj>aid N all 'debts incurred m its dispute^wrfcfr the employers ,and was still m a "sb^ny r finajicial! position and preparing to go before- the Conciliation Council. 'The;-employers'as a whole were not \ complying with tfhe recommendations '"of :tHe'; Arbitration Court, as m every district he; visited he heard complaints about low wages, and it was abundantly.' clear that recommendations were^ofcijo value' -to the workers. AccjimnaodaMpn'foci farm workers was not improving,"-arid employers of a certain f class would %ot improve the workers'?! 1 condition until tKe' Government! compelled them t'q- d$ go; The following resolution was carried unanimouslyr"'That the genteril secretary be'instructed to commun'ipate with the Minister \of Labour asking. him to enforce-the Farm Labourers .Act of 1907, arid also*io ask 'the rrienxb/eV for the district to use his positionvas,'promised at time! 'to the /.workers of Leeston to,''bring about the enforcement ofAhef^ct:" ;■' :';;; •- •- It was,'-decided ; that! the rexecujHve should call a'special; meting to appoint delegates to'attend/'a cdnferenbe ouunskilled' workers' unions; of thb dominion to discuss the mattei; of federation.