The Boy Immigrants.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1404, 27 January 1914, Page 5

The Boy Immigrants.

The attitude of the Rural Workers’ Union towards the boy immigrants who arrived this week from England is open to criticism. The Rural Workers’ Union has apparently not yet been registered. If it has been, then it is only within the past two dr three days. The emissary who was sent to Auckland - MrR. Mcßae—has no particular interest in farm labour, so far as wa are aware, other than that of a shearer. The Rural Workers’ Union is understood to be making demands upon the farmers for better wages and other conditions. It may be part of the policy of the Union to prevent the farmers from obtaining labour, and to penalise them for having taken an active partin the recent strike. The interference of the Union with a business arrangement between two parties will not gain for it the sympathy of the public. Nor will those young men who have listened to the voice of the charmer find their prospects materially improved. They will be making a bad start in the Dominion by adopting the Red Fed policy of ‘‘ To hades with agreements.”—Age Masterton.