FARMERS IDLE
SERIOUS POSITION IN BRITAIN WORKLESS MEN JOIN ARMY LONDON, Wednesday. In the House of Lords today the Earl of Liverpool asked the Government to establish a committee representing all parties to deal with the serious plight of agriculture. Lord Cranworth said the position was so desperate that the unemployment figures were rising in certain agricultural districts for the first time in living memory. The Earl of Airlie said the country had not realised the desperate straits to which agriculture had been reduced. Last week 100 ploughmen had left the Braes of Angus, Forfarshire, to enlist in the Army owing to the lack of work. Within a few years farmers would be producing only cattle and milk. Earl De La Warr said that Mr. N. Buxton, Minister of Agriculture, was presiding over a conference of landowners, farmers and workers, which was empowered to discuss everything but tariffs. It would not be possible to set up another conference until that one had reported.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 903, 21 February 1930, Page 11
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163FARMERS IDLE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 903, 21 February 1930, Page 11
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