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into the market " and hypothetical remissions 

 of existing taxation. Railway men and 

 miners were not diverted from their successful 

 pursuit of better wages and better conditions 

 by any shifting visions of a land-tax mil- 

 lennium. " Cut your cackle and give us more 

 wages it's the rivets we're after," says a 

 working man in Seems So. The members of 

 the Agricultural Labourers Union know what 

 they need. They demand a living wage and 

 a decent cottage, and greater facility in the 

 acquisition of small holdings at a reasonable 

 rent. They do not include in their programme 

 the rating of " unimproved land " values in 

 rural districts. 



4. Land Nationalization 



The most drastic remedy offered for rural 

 ills is that of Land Nationalization. This 

 proposal has received the stamp of approval 

 not only from professed Socialists but also 

 from a considerable body of our more advanced 

 Radicals both inside and outside the House 

 of Commons. The Land Nationalizer will 

 argue that his policy alone is really adequate 

 to cope with the evil conditions of agricultural 

 England. According to him the entire system 

 of private land-ownership embodies so many 

 defects that measures such as Rent Courts 



