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LABOURERS' WAGES 



stantially raised. The Board of Trade inquiry 

 in 1907 included both and brought out the 

 rates given in the table below. We place 

 beside them the results of a subsequent in- 

 quiry made on the same plan in 1912-13 by 

 the Rural Labourers' League : — 



Average Earnings of Ordinary Agricultural 

 Labourers in England. 



Statistics have also been recently published 

 by the Central Land Association and the 

 National Home and Land League. The 

 figures of the former are somewhat higher 

 than those of the Rural Labourers' League ; 

 those of the National Home and Land League 

 are almost identical with those of the Board 

 of Trade for 1907. With regard to the table 

 given above it must be remembered that in 



