FARMERS AND LABOURERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 3 February 1938, Page 9

FARMERS AND LABOURERS

ITO THE EH IT OR OE THE CRESS. Sir, —May I express my feelings on a matter of which we read almost daily in “The Press,” namely, politics. ■ I suppose we may put it down to Tory ignorance when we see wild Speeches by the Nationalists about the £3 a week income of the farmer, compared with the £4 a week wage of the relief worker, as we arc classed by the speakers. What I have yet to find out is how a farmer can buy and run a £SOO car on £3 a week, when we Public Works Department men. after losing on the average a day a week through wet weather, and paying through the nose for provisions (Is 3d for a loaf of brc d> cannot even afford a cheap car. It would be great if we could have a modern house to live in herd instead of living for years on end in a tent, and have hired help to do our work when we wanted to go to a tennis match or a bridge party. In closing. I add that with „ some exceptions, the muchlauded backbone of the country is not much, and if their party goes back into power then we shall soon be doing what a former Prime Minister promised us—“eating grass.”—Yours, etc.. W. L. COOPER. Bealcy, February 1, 1936.