25 APRIL 1914, Page 19

In the Lords on Tuesday Lord Salisbury drew attention to

the insufficiency of agricultural wages in certain parts of the country, and associated himself with the demand that the Government should grant an impartial and official inquiry into the whole subject. Employers and employed should be brought together on equal terms and come to a conclusion about wages, and rely for support on the force of public opinion. Such consultation must have official and legislative sanction, and he suggested that the machinery of the County Councils could be used, with the sanction of the Central Authority, to establish an official standard of wages in districts where wages were admittedly too low.