FREE LABOURERS.
The action of the Wairarapa and other farmers in sending a contingent of free labourers to Wellington is not being taken with any desire to extend the industrial trouble or to inflame the city populace. There are hundreds of tons of produce in Wellington awaiting shipment to she London markets. Much of this produce belongs to struggling farmers whose very' existence depends upon its shipment. If men cannot be secured in Wellington to work the vessels—and apparently the fear cf :nolestation is preventing hundreds from offering their services—it is the manifest duty of farmers and their sons to do the work themselves, as it was done some months ago in Brisbane. We have not the slightest doubt that, when a hundred or two country farmers get to work, there will be an abundance of other labour offering, and that a.,registered union will speedily be formed under the Arbitration Act. It might be. well if the Shipping Companies were to accommodate the free labourers on the vessels while work is proceeding. This would prevent their coming into contact with the revolutionaries of the city.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 November 1913, Page 4
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185FREE LABOURERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 November 1913, Page 4
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