" I have seen a sample of them, and thank heaven I am not a unionist," was a statement made by a ploughman who gave evidence on the employers' side of the farm labourers' dispute at Leeston, last week. Did you ever meet a man outside the union who was no-class?" queried Mr. Thorn. " I can't say that I have," the witness replied, amid laughter. "You say," pursued Mr. Thorn, "that all tho iucom.petent and no-class men are in tho union, and all the good men are outside it?" v Yes, that is what I cay," was the unequivocal response..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13625, 19 December 1907, Page 7
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99Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13625, 19 December 1907, Page 7
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