fixed their minimum fees, nor is anybody who 

 gets up at a Church Congress and pleads for 

 300 a year as the reasonable income of a 

 beneficed clergyman described in the Guardian 

 as an " agitator." In short, masters fix the 

 price of their commodities, and the workers 

 will fix the price of their labour. Now, then, 

 is the acceptable time to extend helping hands 

 to the poor toilers in our fields. Who will 

 deny the justice of their cause ? 



It is among the sturdy labourers of Norfolk, 

 a race of men famous in English history for 

 their love of freedom, that the old spirit of 

 combination has been chiefly preserved. The 

 centre of the new movement toward Trades 

 Unionism is the hamlet of Hempton, near 

 Fakenham. Here in a single room two men 

 are working daily for the cause, Mr. George 

 Edwards, C.C., and Mr. H. R. Walker, the 

 two secretaries of the National Agricultural 

 Labourers' and Rural Workers' Union. The 

 former, who began life once as a labourer at 

 six years of age, was a colleague of Joseph Arch 

 in the great village movement of the seventies ; 

 and it is largely by his unselfish energy and 

 enthusiasm that the dying embers of Unionism 

 have been preserved from extinction. The 

 amount of work accomplished by these two 

 secretaries is amazingly great. Their labours 



