FARM LABOUR.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18925, 14 February 1927, Page 10

FARM LABOUR.

10 THE EDITOR OF THE Sir.—There has been n good deal » f correspondence lately in tlic patver rcgnrding farmers and lalwir. !lic farmer seems to be always (otnjilainini; how hard done by lie is, but he <lct'S not think that the lal>ouring man in the country, who works 011 the farms can onlv earn lis a day. It dors not ■worry tfieni when it is wet weather and the labourer has his living to pay for. his family to support, and house re:it to pay, and some months only earning £7 a month. Some farmers may have a hard strugg'o. but the average farmer is riding round in his motor-car and the farm ran look after itself ; hut if the fann labourer cannot meet his debts he is generallv put d«wn a*, a spendthrit or something else; hut wh<*u the average farmer liecomes a bankrupt. .it is hard luck. In some cns"S it may be, but in most cases it is neglect, or they arc frightened to pay a man a decent wr.,zo to help to keep a place in deceit order. If there i< not something done for the married man that works on the farms for lis a day. they will have more men flocking to the town, as with the prices out in the country for groceries and other thing* and the wages he receives, he is not likely to stav out in the country Hoping some of the unemployment, committee will take the matter up for the sake of the married man who goes out into the country to work oil the farms.—Yours, etc.. K.n.