RURAL SOLIDARITY!
Ways and means "to enlist the support of the poorer seltlcrs and the employees on farms" are being discussed by the New South Wales Country Party, as a sequel to the byelection loss by the Country Party (Federal) of one of the Federal seats in New South Wales, Gwydir. The New South Wales Country Party has determined to. "regain Gwydir at the next Federal elections," but how? In what way can a solidarity of interest among richer farmer, poorer farmer, and farm labourer be'built-up, sufficiently to recapture Gwydir? No answer to this question emerges from the recent conference of the party, but the suggestions include a new era of closer settlement. They do not include guaranteed prices, nor higher wages as a corollary of guaranteed prices—at any rate, nothing has been published to suggest that, in the Country Party's opinion, rural political solidarity Can be achieved in that way. But the problem that confronts it is of perennial interest to democracy. Can the worker and the farmer in rural districts be brought, for any length of time, under one party-political banner? Can any Government (Country Party or Labour) build up any policy that will accomplish, for good, such a miracle of solidarity? Or will there be, at all times, borderline country electorates sometimes Labour and sometimes something else?
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 12
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220RURAL SOLIDARITY! Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 12
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