18 OCTOBER 1913, Page 2

Finally, the great tl3ing to remember is that in the

last resort there is one, and only one, sound way of increasing the price of any commodity, whether it be fresh eggs or labour, and that is to increase the demand for it. What the labourer wants most of all is better wages, but better wages he will only get when there is a greater demand for agricultural labour, and indeed for labour throughout the country. Remember that scarcity of supply will never act, as the trade unionist is inclined to think, as a substitute for demand. You can never gain abundance by the production of artificial scarcity. Scarcity will take away with one hand what it appears to give the labourer with the other.