FLAXMILLERS' DISPUTE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 18

FLAXMILLERS' DISPUTE.

According io the Levin..''Chronicle," a conference between the Millers' Association- and the Flax Hands' Union was to-be. held at Palmerston North on Saturday last. The business to be considered was the new working conditions for which the swamp hands and trammers have asked. A representative of the Union stated that the Union was now impressing upon the swamp hands the necessity of getting right down to bedrock in the matter of wages. "There is not the least doubt," said the official in question, "from the Union point of view, unless some radical change is made in existing conditions in the swamps, the Union will have to call in., perhaps reluctantly, the assistance of the New Zealand Federation, of Labor, and what might happen after that no one knows."

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility- I do not mean, by Tiumility, doubt of bis own power or hesitation in speaking his opinion. But really great men have a. curious sense of powerlessness, feeling that the greatness is not m them, but through them.—Raskin.