Lancefield Mercury and West Bourke Agricultural Record (Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Friday 24 April 1914, page 2
Uniting Producers.
FARMERS' U.N" I ON PROPOSER,
LA number of farmers met at Thor*
ma Hotel, Wqpdt'iid, on Saturday
evening fiTst-to. diseuw »be advisabilityof iuau^nnitinir h~ Farmers^-Union. Cr-juo. Adums presided, and the folio winKTesoltit ions-as a bafiisof anion - were agreed upnn^- ;
1. Thur. a Victorian Farmers* Union be formed.
2. That the qualification "of membership be that they are "ligitimate
farmers.
5. That fhe bp.HiB of union be absolutely uon'political iu fcbe party
Honse.
OB/ECT1YC6.
1. To safeguard aud promote the 'common interests of all -primary .pro
ducers va t'he-Siate,
2. To meet 4«bor tmiometn in industrial disputes -with the spirit, of reason and ^justice, and at the name, tirae plnoo ourselves in the best position to resist any unfair demands or unreasonable oouditrionti'being .placed
upon us.
3. fly the -application of the enoperative principle <*n safe and economic lines we propose to guard assinst the witbmim? influence of monopolistic couibtijatiens of every form.
^.provasionHlcannnittee was formed, aud it, was agreed that 1000 pamphlets be procured and distributed throughout the district, with a view to forming local branch<.6 and thenoe extending the movement throughout
the whole Sf^te,