A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE SLEEPING DOG.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 8

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE SLEEPING DOG.

Mnjoi- Lusk moved—“Tli-'it this rmiß-iinn' i.'.vi.r.'-s -s its <h >irc to hn:r.f tin' J.-'armi-is’ Ei:i on into i-lvsvi- loueli will, the labor .mi.,ns ; of tli.- I,'ominioii. with the ohji-ut id ln-i:i:;in-; about a ln-tif.-r mrlwMauiiin;; botwi-ci, tin; varioi;,i s<-c- ' h.m. .*i tin: com,niiiiity by :ui in-ti-n-lrmg.- of vh.-w.s on, ami mutual , <;on>hl»-i;:tioii at, tin; ina-.ls and aims ; cl ca.-b si-tdion, bolii-ving that in I ibis wav tin; can..a of much of tlm j uih-.A prevailing_ ill the community j may In- i.-mcvid." I .Mr (i. Sli.-at (N'crtli Canterbury) j tliouglii, the mover should withdraw I the motion ami “let sleeping dogs lie.” I The motion was by 1:? 1 voles to 7. - ■ Report of Tanners' 1 Union Conference. 1

“The sleeping dogs” will lie glad to sno the Farmers’ Union n-presentatives. We are obliged to state, however, that wo cannot: act on Urn suggestion that we should “lie.” It must be understood to start with that when we meet we shall t-aho good earn to speak the truth in many important particulars. Wo want a .mutual understanding between the workers ou the land and the city, lactery, transport, mining, building workers. When these workers shall have come to «n uudo.r.slatiding ‘‘the unrest prevailing in tho community "ill he removed.” because the exploiting of tho workers through the power of monopoly will become at once impossible.