SLOGAN FOR FARMERS' RALLY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1930, Page 11

SLOGAN FOR FARMERS' RALLY.

(To the Editor.) Sir.—When the tnen wfe pay, whether wharfieS, sailors or other unionists, hold their usual stop-work meeting an absentee i# promptly termed a ‘‘scab, and farmers not rolling up on Wednesday should be called ditto, but bur slogan must be “pre-war remuneration for every man and woman in the Dominion down to the youngest flapper, including politicians, professional men, and all public services.” To-day eight sheep have to be shorn or 17 cow milked to pay one man one day’s wages (14s), So now it is about time farmers were sitting up and letting the Government know that they ate not going to allow it to borrow ten millions to buy votes, for in plain English that is what it means. The best definition of the Unemployment Act is that it is a Bill to let loafers live in luxury,—l am, etc., W.

P S,—A farmer’s wife has juet rung up to say that if we brought the M.’sP. salaries down to pre-war ones cverythino- would tumble in the twinkling of an eye, like butter, cheese and •wool.—W.