Agricultural Organisation 



The labourers would be organised into a 

 society of their own which would naturally 

 differ a good deal in its composition from the 

 preceding societies. In the first place it would 

 have to be more parochial in character, for 

 labourers could not go to the market town to 

 attend meetings, although they could attend 

 parish meetings. 



Further, the labourers' society would be 

 obliged to concern itself with the question of 

 wages to this extent, that the society should 

 endeavour to secure a rise in the wages of its 

 members as soon as possible after a boom in 

 agriculture, and delay a decrease, if decrease 

 should ever be necessary, as long as possible ; 

 this is recognised as a perfectly legitimate 

 object for an association of labourers. 



Each society would meet when it liked, where 

 it liked, as it liked ; but harmony and con- 

 tinuity of purpose would be secured by the 

 constant interchange of opinions largely through 

 correspondence, and also by means of regular 

 organisers who would go from meeting to meet- 

 ing. These men would be instructed to put 

 not only the organising of the industry as a 

 whole before the meeting, but also specific cases 

 as need might arise, and thus would agricultural 

 thought be most speedily methodised as it is 

 methodised in other countries. 



Finally, there would be joint conferences — 

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