EXPORT PRODUCERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 250, 4 August 1941, Page 7

EXPORT PRODUCERS

MR BURNETT URGES FEDERATION. TEMUKA, August 3. The hope that a federation of export producers would be formed in the future Avns expressed by Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., at the twenty-first birthday celebration of the Milford Co-operative Dairy Company at Temuka on Saturday evening. There were poAverful interests today in a. position to combine against the best interests of the primary producer, said Mr Burnett. On the effort of primary producers depended our standard of living, the very arithme-

tic of our social security scheme, and j all that in which We took pride. The difficulties, of the primary pToy . ducer could be illustrated, he said, by • a comparison between statistics, .for’'; June, 1941, and those for 1914. Wag;e§ . were up 87 per cent., the costof liVingj;.; was up 70 per cent., pastoral and dairy. 1 * produce prices were up 39 per ceiit. J; i and the cost of farming wits up 55 jper : '- cent. v .l'; : ::;'S It was Soddbn, he thought, Udio saicU.' that statemanship of the future would ; resolve itself largely into an endeaA'ourto retain the just balance between the employer and the employee. In the a. old days, with plural voting, the land- : ed interests Av6re hut tho : swing of poAver had gone from the land to organised labour and the supreme diity of; organised labour should be to use that power with disetimina-" turn and', justice.