114 Agriculture and the Community. 



farmers. Every rural worker who makes hijnself pro- 

 minent on behalf of his fellow knows that he is placing 

 not merely his employment in jeopardy but is risking his 

 home also and that he must be prepared to face the risk 

 of being homeless as well as unemployed. It is not good 

 for the community that the farmers should have such 

 power over their workers, and it is not good for the State 

 that any of its workers should feel they are such helots 

 as the tied house system creates. A minimum of housing 

 available for the necessary stockmen is required for most 

 farms, but there is no justification whatever for the 

 housing of all the workers being in the hands of the 

 farmers, as is the case in some parts of England and all 

 over Scotland. 



