* * * * But there is to be a
Labour Party campaign in rural constituencies which 'have so far resisted the party's blandishments, and the aim is to get votes which will inevitably be used in. the interests of townsfolk. We can imagine the feelings of Joseph Arch at the prospect. The speakers at Margate played with nationalization: They did not explain the advantage of exchanging a landlord for a State official, nor. dwell.on the vast increase of property-oWners, so greatly accelerated since the War, and they waved aside the few critics who ventured to estimate the cost, a trifle of a thousand millions perhaps. Though the cash wages of the labourer are still compara- tively low, and even his many perquisites in kind do not make him so well rewarded as the. townsman, Mr. MacDonald did not suggest that townsfolk should pay more for their food to raise the labourer's wage, or suggest any Other economic means whereby Wages Boards could increase it.
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