FARM LABOURERS' WAGES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12506, 19 May 1906, Page 13

FARM LABOURERS' WAGES.

TO THE EDITOR OF "TUT. rRK3S."

gi r __It is obviotie that your corTC&pOTidont "Old Cloclhoj;>por" is a farmer and an employer of labour, and sic apftm to hrliivo in a maximum amount „{ ,rork for a minimum wage. Tho scale °f vng™ propcwl hy the AgricuJtural Labourers' Union is no higher than thnt in vopu» in many parts of tho >'ortb Wnnd. nnrl yet tho farmers who * "pxorhitant" wages seem to prosper surprwingb'- "'though they mc not exactly miilicnaircs. It is a no-te-•K-orthv f not tnilt farmers aiul runholcW* , ln *-' I ' s i s l P :, y much lower • p~5 for nil classes cf farm labour t.'h.'in in tho North. Why th.'a «hon.l«l he. I fail to «*'• ,0 aariciiltural labourer o f to-<lay more intelligent tha.:i that, of a gon'v-al'on ago. :intl he i< beginn.iiu: '{, see th' b"uef.c:al eff<"fts of o! her tia<]<* ,a; l<l'><""■ nnicr.*.. He -ql S why he >h'iiil I work loiik't honn> r or Jf-es pay than any other t rn<lo<tn.iJi or or why lie should work overtime for the pole benefit, of his emplovfr. A plotiphir.nn cnri fe«-«d his from 6 a.m. tr» 8 and still do a pood day's w wic of eight hours by 5 p.m. >'o, fiir, farm lalKiurem do not. want chanip<iST lc Tnotor-ca-rp, but a fiiir for a fair day's work, and extra nay for extra work.—Yours, eic B. 0. BLSHOP.

S;imner, May 16th, 1906