Farm Workers’ Future

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28958, 28 July 1959, Page 3

Farm Workers’ Future

Sir, —I have read with interest the letters of “Trying Hard,” D. Robertson, and “Office Boy.” Compared with his city counterpart, the farm worker is in a more fortunate position financially today. The farmer provides him with good living quarters and there is no rent to be met. The basic wage is good and a farm worker who has any initiative and will assert himself can, with the prvileges, e.g., cows to milk, eggs (wheat supplied by the farmer), potatoes, firewood, and numerous other recompenses, save sufficient money to purchase a farmlet as a stepping-stone to something on a larger scale. I fail to agree with D. Robertson when he states that a worker to be able to save sufficient cash to buy a farm must make slaves of his wife and children. What is a little selfsacrifice? Its reward is rich. Owning a farm brings its worries and responsib.ilities. Others have done it; so try hard and don’t despair.—Yours, etc., NOW A FARMER’S WIFE. July 24, 1959.