LABOUR'S LAND POLICY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17212, 14 July 1919, Page 6

LABOUR'S LAND POLICY.

—When the Labour Party was first launched it began to attack the freehold. This was the sole cause of the Farmers' Union coming into existence. The Hon. J. T. Paul is seemingly in sympathy with, the working farmers, and wishes to conserve their interests. The Farmers' Union has never attempted to float measures affecting Labour ; we have simply confined our efforts to minding our own business, with which we are familiar, and not attempting to dictate to the rest, of the community what they shall or shall not do. The go-slow policy, stop-work meetings, strikes, preference to unionists have not yet been tried by the Farmers' Union, but perhaps it is in the womb of the future. If Mr. Paul were to put in a few years breaking in land he would would recognise the impossibility of correctly valuing his improvements. It would be necessary to leave a section in its original condition. Valuing town land? is very different. Farmers have no time for theories, as they may end in bankruptcy. Labour in town seems to have more time for elaborate theories, and instead of nursing them themselves, they foist them on to the world at large, which generally is the farmer, as Labour thinks the land should stand all charges. W. B. Ramsey. Bombay, July 7, 1919.