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telling us the Promised Land was that way, others in an 

 opposite direction. We blindly followed and did not realise 

 that the Promised Land for which we were looking was the 

 very land on which we stood." 



By Workers' Representatives. 



" To the charge that the policy of the Labour Party is 

 one of ' all take and no give/ I reply that Labour demands 

 the removal of obstacles. To-day there was privilege and 

 monopoly for the few. Labour was prepared to give its 

 services, but it had nothing else to offer." 



" The Labour Party exists to remove the embargoes which 

 past and present-day laws have imposed, and which prevent 

 evolution to get opportunities of living a free life. 



" This country is the centre of the British Empire, and we 

 ought to keep the good men on the land." 



" In Scotland there is the same difficulty as in England in 

 keeping good men on the land. The reason is that they have 

 no place in the community. They want more outlet for their 

 activities." 



" My mind goes back to an election when I heard a farmer 

 candidate say the agricultural labourer was the most skilled 

 in the world." 



" If farmers had good cattle they took care of them ; 

 they should give as much attention to men as to cattle." 



" Many men would not come back from the war ; many 

 would come back maimed and broken. The women would 

 have to fend for themselves." 



" The land is not the place for a married woman." 



" I have strong views about the employment of women on 

 the land, but they are buried for the time of the war." 



" Women should be independent ; their greatest tyrant 

 was often the agricultural labourer." 



" Having seen how hard my mother worked, and how in the 

 evening the men often came home very irritable, I realised 

 that the man I married should not be an agricultural 

 labourer." 



" Landlords should seek information direct from the 

 labourers." 



