THE FIBRE INDUSTRY.
A PREMATURE CONFERENCE. (Pkh Unitkd Pnisss Association) A ma ♦• PALMI ? R STON .N„ March 6, A meeting was held at Foxton last night at the instigation of %■ Ross and one or o other flasM.ii owners, with the avowed purpose of arranging a conference with flaxnull employee with the idea of making arrangements w.th the men to work for a lower wage on account, of the low price ruling for flax, the conveners considering that at present rates the mills were working at a loss Tlie meeting was evidently premature, the convenors having no definite proposals to set before the crowd of employees present, and after a lot of aimloss discussion, during which numerous questions were asked by the men as to the main idea of the conveners, the meeting terminated without definite action. Mr Ross replying to a question, absolutely rcfiiwd to permit his books to be examined by a piibl/c accountant. Prominent miller's in tho tliotrict consider the meeting a blundar,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14156, 7 March 1908, Page 5
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165THE FIBRE INDUSTRY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14156, 7 March 1908, Page 5
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