AGRICULTURE AND THE UNEMPLOYED
Sne,—The First Lord of the Admiralty has told the country that "a million more women must come into our war in- dustry."
It has apparently escaped the notice of the Government that it is equally necessary that thousands of able-bodied men who are not as yet conscripted, nor ever likely to be, owing to their age, are at present absolutely unemployed and living on the dole.
The Government, however, seem at last to have awakened to the fact that there is such a thing as agriculture, and that the land must be further cultivated, and to the greatest possible degree if we hope to win the war. Parliament before long will surely come to realise that tlidse thousands of unemployed men should, in their turn, be con- scripted to work on the land.
Moreover, not only would the huge expense of the dole be saved, and their manhood restored by earning a living wage, but the risk of starvation to the country would ,:lso be, to a very great extent, saved.—I am, Sir, yours faithfully, C. LESLIE NORRIS,
Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue.
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