F.U, Urges Political Action After War

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1941, Page 4

F.U, Urges Political Action After War

[Special to “Northern Advocate”] AUCKLAND, Friday. By adopting unanimously a report prepared by a special committee, the Auckland Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union today decided upon a definite course of political action at the end of the war. The committee, which was set up at an earlier session of the conference, comprised Messrs. J. H. Furniss, A. Briscoe Moore, H. O. Mellsop, H. Johnson, and A. C. Sexton, and its chairman, Mr. Furniss, informed the delegates that the findings were unanimous. Post-War Movement The report was embodied in the following remit, which was approved unanimously by the delegates, and will be sent to the Dominion Conference. “This conference is against direct participation in party politics during the war, but in view of the farmers’ economic position, believes that such participation' will be necessary and inevitable in the post-war period of reconstruction. To this end we recommend an intensification of the present endeavours to consolidate under one central body all farmers’ organisations concerned with the processing and marketing of primary produce, and that immediate action be taken to organise farmers’ opinion in readiness for direct political action in the post-war period.” The president (Mr. H. M. Rushworth) said he thought it would be worse than useless to attempt anything in the Auckland Province unless a Dominion front were organised. No action would be taken in Auckland unless the proposals were approved by the Dominion Conference.