The Land-Worker's Dinner
Welfare work was long ago introduced into factories and m —and Mr. Lloyd George had a good deal to do with that— never till lately has it been brought into agriculture, where it needed as much as anywhere. Mr. Lloyd George, who has giving much of his heart and his time to farming in his later y might have been counted on to give his blessing to the movement for providing restaurant-meals for agricul workers ; he celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday by opening restaurant on his farm at Bron-y-de, where some 70 men women lunched as his guests. On future occasions they will rid. each. The food came hot in an insulated motor-van f a centre at Haslemere conducted by the urban district co with help from the Ministry of Food. It is ready to serve agricultural workers within a ten-mile radius. Every coun man knows how much the farm-workers—and indeed th families—stand to gain by this simple expedient for solving problem of the mid-day meal, hitherto unsolved for those v. work at some distance from their homes. But this is only of many problems affecting the social life of the land-wor who lives under irksome conditions never in the, ameliorated, and such as- to deter many men from entering industry. Another of their hardships is comparable with which the miners experienced, emerging black from the m till they were provided with pit-head baths. The same am is sorely needed by the farm-labourer, who goes at the end of day wet and miry to his home. Baths and hot food would much to remove the unattractiveness of work on the land— for the men in the fields and the women who cook and dean.
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