DAIRYING ORGANISATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20725, 19 November 1930, Page 14

DAIRYING ORGANISATION.

Sir, —The dairy farmers deserve to b% the slaves of the rest of the community, toiling from 14 to 16 hours a day to produce a sweated article, which they meekly* hand, over and accept a starvation sum for —an article produced only too often by the hands of women and little children. Farmers! Organise, and remain organised, wake up from the lethargy, which seems to have fallen upon you, get out of the rut you have lived in only too long! Long hours and excessive work will :not save you. Get busy before too late, demand that farmers' meetings be held at a date to be fixed by chairman of factory. Hates, taxes, must be p;iid, tradespeople and merchant cannot carry on without money. We cannot, carry on without manures and the hundred and one things needed for a farm. Likewise, the landowner, proper, is Bitting tight, in our case anyhow, waiting for his big interest for practically undeveloped land bought in boom time and now . a fullydeveloped farm. He, too, has a good thing on. More unemployment is at hand at a time when farmers need all the help they can get. Quite a number of young men in our vicinity have had to quit their jobs owing to lack of funds, and the time is very near, unless a miracle happens, when the wives and children of the farmers will have to take the places of tho young men in shed, and other work will have fo cense. The "Song of the Shirt" can be well applied to the dairy industry of to day. Rebecca.