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EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

■ allow mo to- express my gratu. ful thanks.to the, above federation'for their- • sympathy in. passing the resolution touching farm'and daiiy labourers.; "llecognising the. vast . importance' of tho dairying, agricultural, .and flaxmillirig industries to -the Do.minion; and the very great- difficulties :surrounding' th<s operations of the businesses referred to,.as their selling values are fixed by markets outside tho-Dominion, this meeting of tho-Now Zealand Employers' • Federation is "of opinion that_ the industries above re-., ferred to should bc ; c:ieinpt from the working i of. the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration 'Act." )Vliat a pleasure it is to discover isuch an'instalment of practical common sense! .-1 have : copied -it be'eauso it exactly restates my; own frequently, reiterated opinions,-; and vbccause .it. is absolutely true andj to the.point, and moreover qnito unsolicited. ■ That it differs from thoiviows expressed -by- some /of the. trades and-Mabour councils and potty unions who simply, repeat" and-.transmit the-silly resolutions'passetl by those \vho. clearly, do not understand* the meaning of some; of thoiv resolutions, in 110 way. detracts; from its value. On the contrap-, it emphasises tho /lccessity of joint action on tho part of all whose interests aro or, even as iri this instanco, in* directly affectfed;by meddlesomo legislation of any., industry: for purely political -purposes. Farmers in New Zealand will, I am sure, feel delighted to know that their - position and their difficulties are understood by tho federation.—l am, otc., ; . .. . .. . • AGRICOLA. October 13. . ; ..

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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 10

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EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 10

EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 10

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