FARM LABORERS' DISPUTE.
(Special to Herald.) f CHRISTCHURCH^ this -day. "This might have been prevented and made whole by, ; the very easy argument of love,", were not the words in which Mr T. B. Howson, a- well-known Leeston farmer, at the Conciliation Board, referred to the .steps which might have been taken to deal with the farm laborers' dispute, but they conyey briefly, what The did, suy. He . had offered to join i the Farm Laborers' Union, he stated, butjthe unioii--wdul_r^oto;OTcept' him. ■ This s Was tq* be regretted, :because/;he i was of opinion that'.if .there. had, been several farmers on that union the matters in dispute could haye been, discussed and -some amicable agreement < arrived at. 'TheXFarm Laborers' .Union, jn declining his membership, hacl not treated the farmers with the same liberality that the Farmers' Union was prepared to 'treat, the farm laborers with, . the last-mentioned union having offered to accept farm laborers at half rates. Had this o offer been accepted, Mr Howson thought, it would have given the farm laborers an opportunity of bringing- their grievances before the farmers, either by reading a paper or by other means. It Was poscible that suggestions for remedying any grievance could have been brohght to a successful issue, and the country saved the -expense of the Conciliation Board proceedings. " ' .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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218FARM LABORERS' DISPUTE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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