Farm Workers’ Future
Sir, —I have asked whether the Labour Party has ever done anything towards enabling farm workers to obtain a leasehold, but with no satisfaction. Tbe party did not believe in private ownership of homes, or farms, but built rental houses for State tenants and penalised the private home owners by making them pay State tenants’ rates and upkeep as well as their own. Tom Bryce claims the Government provided "full employment.” It has done nothing of the sort; that has been done by the executives, the employers of labour, and in spite of the Government and not with its assistance. Full employment of a kind has been given to a horde of inspectors, controllers, and “authorities” whose jobs result in compelling everyone to apply. for a permit before being allowed to do anything. We are getting nearer to Russia every day.—Yours, etc.. HIRAM HUNTER. August 21, 1959. [“Trying Hard” may reply, closing this correspondence.—Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28981, 24 August 1959, Page 3
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