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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1917, Page 8

Fanners have hitherto not been much ■worried by industrial law or Arbitration. Court, proceedings. That was clearly indicated in some of the letters read by the Conciliation Commissioner to-day from persons who objected to their cita. tion as parties to the shearers' dispute. Many of the objectors apparently considered it was sufficient reason for exemption that they had not had a dispute with their shearers. "I object to my name being put on the list." wrote one farmer. "I have never given anyone authority to include me, and I do not wish to "be mixed up with the dispute." Another rmployev considered that there should be a* maximum price, and that shearers should bu bound not to accept more. One or two Biiid' there was no ground for n. new sigreement, us shearers ■were not affected by the increased cost of living. On the other hand, one or two writers considered that the rates proposed by the employers were too low, and one lndy wrote faying that farmers should not s'h.v they could not pay more when they had "inoncy to burn in motorcars." "She ought to be on our fiide," jfeiiiarkcd one of the union assessors,