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In The Balances
From a Staff Correspondent ; SUVA, MarclA Officials of the CSR Comptc are meeting Mr. D. B. Lakshrm of Lautoka, today, in a t cussion of future wage rates < sug a r-mill workers.
Lakshman represents the larg organised group of mill works If there is to be any t future in the Fiji sugar indusz there must be stability in dustrial conditions. The co; pany has tried, again and agt\ to get wage agreements exte: s ing over at least two years', I although agreements are moj they rarely are kept.
Serious industrial trouble i this year is threatened.
Because this makes budget', unsafe, and introduces element of gambling into w-x should be a stable industry, , company is not at all ha\i about the future of its big ' vestment in Fiji. It would surprise some observers if company decided to reduce s activities in Fiji to a pot where it can be sure of a pendable labour supply.
Such a move would, of couu represent sheer disaster fo:c large section of Fiji workers