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A BISHOP'S WARNING

Bishop Gore, speaking at a recent meeting of the National Land and Home League, protested against the employment of very young children, in agriculturel^

"All knew," he 6aid, "the serious danger to which the country was exposed through industrial division. v Tho oaufio of that was that in the industrial districts people felt that their hnrd-won weapons against capital were imperilled. Those who worecivllod tho governing classes must not, if they valued the future unity of the country, give the slightest handle to 'working people to say fhafc tho opportunities of tho war were beiiiff used in order to deprivo working pooplo'e children of the opportuniiics of education. II was better k; employ women on the land than youngr childrpn. When'farmers said that women labour was pot available, 'what thoy rpa'dy meant was Hint it was not- at a palpably inadequate wage."

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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 10

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A BISHOP'S WARNING Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 10

A BISHOP'S WARNING Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 10