CORRESPONDENCE
FARM LABOUR Sir, —According to reports in The Press to-day it is becoming more widely understood that primary products are munitions of war. This fact was appreciated by the British Government, when, to encourage greater production, the incomes of farm workers and working farmers were increased to the approximate level of wage rates in other industries. The Canadian Government followed by a subsidy to agricultural workers of 15 dollars a month. The New Zealand Government (supported by the Farmers’ Union, be it known) failed to include farming in the list of essential industries. From a purely financial aspect there is no incentive for the hired farm worker to appeal against military service, and every inducement is offered him to accept employment elsewhere. It is necessary, for the successful prosecution of our war effort, to keep men on the land; it is necessary, for the successful conscription of manpower, to remove economic injustice.—Yours, etc., REFORMER. Waikeria.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5492, 1 July 1942, Page 4
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