FARMERS UNITING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 November 1913, Page 5

FARMERS UNITING.

THROUGHOUT AUSTRALASIA

AUCKLAND, Nov. 17. Realising. the value of the organisation of the farmers, the executive of the Auckland Provincial Farmers' Union has discussed the adyisability of a scheme whereby all farmers' organisations in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand may act together in the case of dislocatiori of trade caused try industrial strife. \ At a meeting of the executive, held on Saturday, it was decided.to get into close touch with all Farmers' Unions in Australia and Tasmania, with a view to preventing any attempts to hold up boats from Australia to New Zealand, or- vice versa.

The secretary (Mr A. Schmitt) reported that steps had already been taken in this direction, and even now he was in communication with two important Australian unions on the subject. Mr Schmitt explained that the idea of the scheme put forward was for farmers' unions and associations in the Southern Hemisphere to co-operate on a large scale, ( so that the primary industries would be protected and not be left to the mercy of irresponsible agitators. Farmers were now fully alive to the danger to national interests of < a certain Labor organisation controlled'by strike sympathisers, and the scheme now put forward by his executive would help to maintain national interests and circumvent the threatened danger. He was sanguine that the complete organisation of farmers' unions in Australasia wouldTße the outcome of the present crisis. *.