FARMERS’ CAMPAIGN
(N.Z. Press Association) TAURANGA, Nov. 23. A telephone campaign aimed at enlisting the support of Waikato and Bay of I Plenty farmers for a Waikato farmers’ action committee campaign to get the Government to boost farmers’ inI comes by 25 per cent, is to start this week. Mr I. J. Benseman, of Te Puke, an organiser for the committee, said that if the committee could get the backing of 80 per cent of the farmers it would undertake to picket the wharves to prevent farm produce exports unless their demands were met. National support was hoped for. “Unions involved have intimated that they will not cross the picket lines,” Mr Benseman said. He said that it was intended that volunteers would start telephoning every farmer they could find in the telephone book from Monday night onward, seeking their support for the committee’s proposed action. A month has been allowed for the campaign.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32462, 24 November 1970, Page 20
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