FARM WORKERS' WAGES
"SATISFACTORY AGREEMENT" STATEMENT BY MR. POLSON [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday Without disclosing confidences, said Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., at a meeting of tho Inglewood branch of the Farmers' Union, he could say the union had done work of encrinous value in connection with the farm labour legislation. For one year at least there would be no interference with hours of work, and wages would be on a sliding scale, so that when tho farmer received Is 2d or Is 3d a pound for dairy produco the farm worker would recoive a wage that should be satisfactory to all. That agreement had been endorsed by tho Cabinet. Mr. Poison thought that when tho agreement was fully disclosed farmers and farm workers wQuld bo satisfied. He assured them that it would be an entirely different- scheme from the oile originally brought down by tho Government.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22398, 20 April 1936, Page 10
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