356 



INDEX. 



Vincent, J. E. Matthew, 34, 36, 38, 

 47. 69 



WALES, agricultural labourers be- 

 fore 1872, 21 

 Walker, P. 13., 109, 242, 245, 257, 



264. 299, 315 



Wallace, Dr. Alfred Russel, iGS 

 Walsingham, Lord, 62 

 Wantage, Lord, good conditions 



on estate of, 1 1 1 

 War : 



Agricultural committees, 245 

 Disorganisation caused by, 233 



et seq. 



Ward, W. <;., 38 

 Warwickshire Agricultural Union, 



38 

 WAGES : 



Agricultural Wages Board, see 



that title 



" Back Pay " Corn Produc- 

 tion Act, 1917, 297 

 Board of Agriculture investi- 

 gation reports, 1917, 254 

 Custom, cause of variation, 108 

 Diminution, 1900-10, 205 

 District Wages Committees, 



see that title 



Fines and deductions, 117 

 Fox, Wilson, report, 1905, 



152 et se<f. 



Harvest rates, 296, 308 

 Investigations, 1890-3, 103 



ct se<.j. 



Increased demand, 1919, 301 

 Kind, wages paid in, 108, 323 

 Lock-out, 1874, non-union 



wages, 60 



Minimum wage, see that title 

 Prices and wages, 1853-72, 

 17, 1 8, 19, 20, 21, 3 1 et seq. 

 Rates, 1015, 241 et sc.j. 

 Royal Commission, 1 880-2, 



Arch's evidence, 72 

 Sandringham, estate, 21 -ct sej. 

 Soldier labour, 239, 244 

 Tables, 76, 336, 337, 338 

 Victimisation of Trade Union- 

 ists, 318 

 Wet weather losses, 77, 78, 110 



WAGES continued. 



Winter and summer rates, 1 16, 



117 



Women field workers, 117, 305 

 Workers' Union campaign, 



1917, 253, 264 et seq. 

 Workers' Union scale, 1914, 



226 



Wages B"iird Gazette, 318 

 Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney, 114 



note 

 Wet weather wage losses, 77, 78, 



no 

 Wheat and Oats : 



Corn Production Act, see that 



title 

 Guaranteed prices, 251, 255, 



315- 3^4 



Prices, 1850-1919, table, 335 

 White, Harry, 282, 300 

 Whittle, W. ]]., 274 

 Wilkins, Mrs. Roland, 256, 291 

 Wilson. P. W., 194 

 Wilts Agricultural and General 



Labourers' Union, 117 

 Wilts labourer, conditions before 



1872, 21 

 Winfrey, Sir Richard, 139, 160, 165, 



181 

 Winscombe and Shipham Inquiry, 



1913, 187 



Winterbourne, Dorset, small hold- 

 ings, 169 



Women, imprisonment, Oxford- 

 shire case, 41 

 Women farm workers : 

 Social status, 329, 330 

 Wages, 117, 305 

 Woodhead, Denton, 257 

 Workers' Union, 142, 144, 183, 201, 

 322 



Organisers' reports, 264 et seq. 

 Wages and hours scale, 1914, 

 226 



YATES. W. B., 256 



Yorkshire Agricultural Union, 1915, 



244 



Yorkshire labourer, conditions be- 

 fore 1872, 17 



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