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wish to gain their economic independence, and 

 each factory should be worked as a Guild, co- 

 operating with the farm workers, all forming a 

 rural civilisation in an interchange of goods and 

 social life, such as is almost unknown in the 

 present day. 



More houses are the only real solution to 

 the intolerable restrictions imposed upon those 

 whose fate it is to live in farm-tied cottages, and 

 it is in supplying this urgent need that County 

 Agricultural Committees would, if constituted 

 on the lines I have advocated, in a large 

 measure bring about the redemption of the 

 empty countryside. 



Men whose duty it is to look after live stock 

 should, to be in attendance when animals are 

 born or are sick, live somewhere close to 

 the stockyard and the lambing fold. Cottages, 

 whether they are on the farms of private land- 

 lords, or in State-owned farms, must, in that 

 sense, be farm-tied. Nevertheless, as long as it 

 is within the power of the landlord, as it is even 

 under the "protection" of the Agriculture Act, 

 to turn the worker out, giving him only a week 

 or two's notice, or on the recommendation of 

 the District Wages Committee, we cannot truly 

 make it a boast that the Englishman's home is 

 his castle. It is reasonable to assume that a 

 farmer's stockman's cottage should be occupied 

 by one of his stockmen, but it is an intolerable 

 state of tyranny if, when the farmer and worker 



