FARM WORKERS
* -— WAGE INCREASES IN BRITAIN. CHECKING DRIFT TO TOWNS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 4. The Government’s Bill to regulate farm workers’ wages had a favourable reception in the House of Commons, and the second reading was not opposed. The Minister of Agriculture. Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, said that the success of the home production campaign depended on the supply of skilled farm labour, and improvement in wages was a matter of material necessity as well as of fairness as an essential check to the labour drift from the countryside to the towns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 5
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