102 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 

 ing among our own people than is the case at Wool- 

 wich." 



" Can you provide employment for 500 of our skilled 

 workpeople?" 



Messrs Vickers, Sons and Maxim reply from their 

 works at Erith : 



" No. We are discharging men, owing to slackness of 

 work." 



The same firm's headquarters at Barrow state : 



" We cannot find work for men from Woolwich, be- 

 cause, if Government demands continue as at present, 

 we fear we cannot help the men we already have em- 

 ployed." 



The Woolwich labour troubles offered a splendid 

 thesis for an academical work on the subject, but the 

 Press failed to grasp the opportunity. 



Whichever way we turn, we are met by the same trend 

 of thought in respect to labour — the manufactures and 

 trades are regarded as the only means of employment in 

 spite of the fact that they persistently fail us, and so — 

 we go on missing the way. 



Let us now turn to other countries in order to see what 

 they do there. 



This is what one of the London dailies had to say on 

 the subject in May of last year: 



UNPARALLELED PROSPERITY 



THE RISING TIDE OF GERMAN TRADE 



AMAZING REPORT 



EXPORTS DOUBLED IN TWELVE YEARS 



" Some extraordinary particulars of the present 

 prosperity of German industry were issued last night 



