27 JANUARY 1923, Page 24

FROM CROW-SCARING TO WESTMINSTER. By George Edwards, M.P., O.B.E. Mr.

Edwards is well known as the moving spirit of the Agricultural Workers' Union—a man who has probably done more than anyone else to raise the status of the farm-labourei and improve his lot. This is a very readable and simple autobiography, and, incidentally, a detailed history of the union since its foundation by the author sixteen years ago. Since Mr. Edwards wrote his book he has lost his seat for South Norfolk.