FARM LABOUR.
It would be safer for agriculturists if they had the protection of a tribunal which would fix the terms of employ- j ment of farm workers, so that they would not, at the most inconvenient periods of their operations, be necessitated to either pay whatever men might demand or suffer their crops to be imperilled (says the "Oamaru Mail"). As we have seen, arbitration occasionally fails; but it more\>f ten succeeds, and even if at times farmers, through breaches of awards, were compelled to conform to the exactions of their workers, they would obviously be better off than they would be if they weie always open to such arbitrary demands. Yet the Farmers' Union Conference has passed a resolution that such a safeguarJ as the Arbitration Court should be abolished and the whole farmin r class He left to the mercy of men who might extort ruinous terms if they happened to be masters of the situation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9163, 11 August 1908, Page 4
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159FARM LABOUR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9163, 11 August 1908, Page 4
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