INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE
FARMERS’ REPRESENTATION CONSIDERED INADEQUATE. Christchurch, Feb. 22. The North Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union is dissatisfied with the representation given to farming interests at the forthcoming industrial conference to be held at Wellington to discuss the Arbitration Act. A resolution was carried at the meeting to-day to the effect that the executive enter an emphatic protest against the method of representation of farming interests, on the ground that the number of delegates allowed to fanners was only ten: that the representation of the dairy farmers was not entrusted to the farmers, but to trading concerns (dairy associations), whose interests, to a large extent, conflict with those of the farmers: that the balance of the employers’ representatives are in a position of being able to pass on the heavy burden of high wages imposed by the awards of the Court; and that it is grossly unfair to ask ten farmers’ representatives to attend a conference t« face 40 delegates who are either receiving substantial benefits from the Act or are indifferent, because it does not hurt them—and any conference based on such representation is simply a waste of time.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 61, 23 February 1928, Page 3
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