FEDERATED FARMERS UNABLE TO COMBAT ORGANISED LABOUR
“That is one of the most difficult questions to answer,” replied the Dominion president of Federated Farmers, Mr. W. N. Perry, asked at a meeting in Wanganui yesterday whether the organisation could take any action in the industrial dispute in Auckland which had resulted in a hold-up of primary produce. Farmers broke up the serious strike which occurred in 1913, but on that occasion conditions were totally different, said Mr. Perry. The farmers were fighting the waterside workers only and were able to get their produce on to the wharves. Today, labour was better organised and if the farmers took any active part and attempted to get their produce through they would find themselves up against all other unions. As a result they vould be deprived of coal, transport and other services. “Labour is fully organised today <tnd we would not bp fighting the one section, as we did in 1913," Mr. Perry added “We would be fighting the whole lot and it is difficult to suggest any remedy. It is a serious position that we are in and I don’t know the answer.” If all the organised labour forces joined together they could hold the country at ransom This would have immediate repercussions and these people would be the first to feel them.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 9 March 1949, Page 4
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