WOOL KINGS

Grey River Argus, 30 June 1932, Page 8

WOOL KINGS

WELCOME LOW WAGES. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, June 29. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Sheep Owners’ and Farmers’ Federation is being held to-day. The President (Mr Aeland), in his address, expressed gratification at the great and beneficial reforms made by the present Government in the industrial arbitration laws. For the first time for a generation, the employers will be able to meet the workers’ unions on equal terms in conference, with a view to settling the terms of employment. He sincerely trusted that both parties would avail themselves of the privilege, and recognise the necessity for mutual agreements being made on lines which would enable the industry to be carried on without undue hardship to any section of the community, and with the prospect of re-absorption into the industry of the whole of available labour, on the basis that would admit of our trade and industry being continued on sound economic lines.