. Farmer and stockbreeder . do anything to help at busytimes. If this matter was agreed to, he said, itwould mean that overtime rates would be paid forwork done after the stipulated time. The Chairman (Mr. Gilbert Maddy) said he wasvery much against making any such concession. Itwas time the farmer put his foot down and made adecided stand in these matters of hours and wagesof agricultural workers. In the discussion which followed, the generalfeeling expressed was that farmers should absolutelyrefuse to make any such concession. Withoutfarmers being consulted in the matter the questionboth of
. Farmer and stockbreeder . do anything to help at busytimes. If this matter was agreed to, he said, itwould mean that overtime rates would be paid forwork done after the stipulated time. The Chairman (Mr. Gilbert Maddy) said he wasvery much against making any such concession. Itwas time the farmer put his foot down and made adecided stand in these matters of hours and wagesof agricultural workers. In the discussion which followed, the generalfeeling expressed was that farmers should absolutelyrefuse to make any such concession. Withoutfarmers being consulted in the matter the questionboth of hours and wages had been fixed by theWages Board, and the least the workmen could do,it was contended, was to give their employers whatwas due to them. It was unanimously agreed that the secretary bedirected to reply to the Workers Union to theeffect that the granting of concessions might createa dangerous precedent, and that the better courseappeared to be for both sides to conform to the rulealaid down by the Wages
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