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STRIKES LOOM AS FARMWORKERS PAY DISPUTE DRAGS ON |
 Union boss Ted Lard and his co-workers pictured yesterday |
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STRIKES LOOM AS FARMWORKERS PAY DISPUTE DRAGS ON |
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Union boss Ted Lard and his co-workers pictured yesterday |
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| Farmworkers gathered yesterday in a Sussex Turnip field to protest at proposed pay rises. The offer of a 20% rise in salary was described by farmworker's spokesman Ted Lard as "far too much" as he led the protesting workers to Pebsham Tip, where they ceremoniously dumped three 5 kilo sacks of Zapitall weed and wildlife killer into the canal. |
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RIOTS
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| One marcher, William Doult 49, of Battle said "What do they expect us to do with all that extra money? My wife already has her hair done three times a week. Its a scandal. We are being made scapegoats. A big strike is planned. When the lack of tractor-drawn haywagons on the road begins to bite, you'll see public sympathy start to swing our way. Mark my words, the stockpile of well rotted manure and pig slurry will not last for ever. If management underestimate the feelings of the general public on this one there could be riots..Ordinary folk will not stand for it and if management insist on behaving like ostriches then they are living in what can only be described as cloud cuckoo excrement." |
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SANDWICHES
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| Ted Lard, 47, later attended a fringe meeting at the Horse & Nightmare in Lamberhurst where he appeared tired and exhausted after the day's protests, During a speech to the assembled farmworkers, just prior to falling into the assorted sandwiches laid on by the Mrs. Rumsfeld of the WI, he accused Landowner Lord Pendlehurst Buckley-Swine of wearing women's underwear, and playing the saxophone to livestock. Lord Pendlehurst was unavailable for comment |
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