TO AMALAGAMATE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 77, 1 April 1914, Page 3

TO AMALAGAMATE

SHEARERS AND FARM LABOURERS. With the establishment of a, Rural v\ orkers' Union in Dunedin (as notified in a Pre&s Association telegram yesterday) the formation of branches covering tht whole of New Zealand has been completed. So less than six oiganisers are engaged. Mr. V. Palmer is organiser in the Auckland district (with headquarters at Hamilton), Mr. E. Hunterin the Wellington district (Masterton), Mr. J. Towiibend in Marlborough (Bleuhcim), Messrs. E. Kennedy and C. Grajndler in Canterbury (Chribtchurch), and Mr. G. Bruce in Otago and Southland (Dunedin). Mr. M. Laracy, secretaiy of the Shearers' Union, who was the prime mover in tho movement, stated to a. Po&t lepoiter yesterday that very encouraging reports had been received from the various unions and he was contiucMiL the organisation would become the strongest body of workers in New Zealand imide oi tweho mouths. An asfialgamiition between the shearers and I'arm labourers would be brought about fn the very near- future. He had received a letter from Mr. E. Grayndler^ secretary of the Australian Workers' union (which is an integral part of a federation representing 100,000 workers) that there would be no trouble^ in regard to amalgamation with that union at, .soon as, muMiCis were ready for the htcp in New Zealand.