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the point where farmers find it difficult to carry on, they 

 should not relax their efforts because of the danger of 

 driving the farmers out of the business. There is no risk 

 in agriculture of the workers demanding rates which will 

 make them a pampered section of the community. If the 

 farmers cannot pay the wages the workers find necessary 

 to secure them a reasonable standard of existence, then 

 the farmers must go and we must organise the Industry 

 so that the workers may be able to enjoy a reasonable 

 standard of life. The alternative that the workers should 

 sink back into the condition of semi-starvation so many 

 of them were in a decade ago does not provide a way out. 

 It would simply result in delaying the time when the land 

 would be allowed to tumble down again because the 

 workers refused to remain. The workers must continue 

 to exert their industrial pressure at the same time as they 

 use their political power to secure the necessary changes 

 in the industry. 



As the pressure of the workers on the industry became 

 effective and the demands of the community for a more 

 efficient industry were given effect to, the position of the 

 worker would improve greatly. In a more efficient and a 

 larger scale industry there would be more opportunities 

 for the workers specialising. There would be room for 

 better grading of work, more openings for men prepared 

 to accept responsibility, and greater scope for training 

 and advance. Along with this would go better educational 

 facilities, and the workers would have the opportunity of 

 sharing in the technical training at present reserved to 

 the farmers and their families. Rural society w'ould not 

 be divided horizontally as it is to-day. There would be 



