THE LOCK-OUT OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS IN ENGLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 1179, 4 July 1874, Page 7

THE LOCK-OUT OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS IN ENGLAND.

The Daily News holds that the lockout of agricultural labourers in the Eastern counties is becoming a matter of national interest and importance. Have the Newmarket Agricultural Association really weighed the chances it has of breaking up the union 1 Had they stood face to face with the men, they might have succeeded. But the labourers have all the world to appeal to. The bone and muscle of the English agricultural labourer is just what the virgin soiUf two continents is crying for. Canada and Australia, the Western States of America and New Zealand, to say nothing of other countries at home and other countries abroad, are ready to pay almost any price to get the labour of these hardy tillers of the ground. The English farmer holds them by the tie of sentiment, of tradition ; they stay at home in their native villages from sheer reluctance to move, from want of enterprise and ambition, from immobility of temperament ; and even when some slight desire to better themselves exists they want a very vigorous spur " to prick the sides of their intent." This spur the farmers of the Eastern counties are now giving their men. A man who would never emigrate to better himself will go with eagerness when his passions are aroused in a quarrel with the master. This is just what we are witnessing in Suffolk. The wise course would be to accept facts, and uae the unions on both sides as a means of ooming to an agreement. The union may drain off superfluous labour, and thus lower the rates to almost the full extent of the advance of wages. It may quicken the intellect and stimulate the exertions of the men, and make, them better worth their larger wages than they have been of the small pittance, eked out by charity, whjoh they have already received. In some districts of the West of England this method of dealing with unionism has been tried, and has succeeded beyond all expectation.

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