AGRICULTURAL LABOUR CONDITIONS

Northern Advocate, 12 June 1937, Page 5

AGRICULTURAL LABOUR CONDITIONS

Problems For International Office

IBritish Official Wireless,! • (Received 10 %.m.) RUGBY, June 10. A message from Geneva states that Mr Ernest Brown, British Minister of' Labour, took part in a general discussion on the directors’ report at the International Labour Conference. He expressed satisfaction at the avowed intention on the part of the International Labour Office to intensify the study of agricultural labour conditions, as one of the questions lying at the root of economic prosperity.; : . ’ . To Avoid a* New Slump. Mr Brown said he was' impressed by the relationship between the for-, tunes of the* manufacturing world and those of the primary producers. If a new slump was to be averted, they must find means of matching ' the wonderful new - capacity of the machine with new and .increasing demands for its produce. >

The International Labour Office had now established a permanent agricultural committee. It might make a beginning. :by examining, the nature of the agricultural. industry, in its relation; to the new • productive capacity of the manufacturing world. : ' Larger Incomes for Primary He hoped it would be able to give them some guidance as to how the 1,200,000,000 primary prbducers could be given larger incomes with advantage both to the producers and the consumers. 1 Also, he hoped for guidance as to how the manufacturing world, as a whole, and manufacturing producers should be related to their own primary producers, whether by a larger consumption of foodstuffs and raw materials, or, by a combination of both.