THE FARMERS’ UNION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24738, 15 October 1941, Page 9

THE FARMERS’ UNION

TO THE EDITOR Sir—l notice in your paper to-day reports of appeals at Balclutha against summonses to military service. One appellant said he had not appealed, but that the secretary of . the Farmers Union had gone ai'ound the country asking the farmers to sign a petition for him. This is a nice state of affairs, seeing that we had Farmers’ Unions everywhere passing resolutions in support' of the conscription of man-power. I say that the Farmers’ Union is the most political and hide-bound organisation one could find. Is it any wonder that the chairman of the board said that the farmers who had signed the. petition showed a sense of disproportion regarding the war. Again, the farmers of Southland are over 2000 acres short in the growing of linen flax. The reason is that the Farmers’ Unions have been complaining that the men at the mill at Winton have been making too high wages and making too much money, when the fact of the matter is that the men are only receiving £5 10s per week, and surely no one wpuld say these wages are too high in view of the cost of living.—l am. etc.. Farmer. Upper Junction.