This month's issue of Landworker, the journal of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, has an editorial supporting the Government's incomes policy. However in the letters' section the following two letters put a different view: "Your editorial in the September issue of the Land Worker seems to suggest that as the gap between agricultural wages and other wages is getting wider the only way to halt it is a wages freeze, I would suggest that the only way is to follow the instructions of the Biennial Conference and get on with the job. We were told that the Rent Act would help the farm workers considerably. ‘hy then within five weeks of a case being heard in the county court has a member in the North Riding of Yorkshire been evicted from his tied house? I wonder how long we are going to sit down and allow the so-called Labour Government to interfere with Union privileges,"
B, Waind,
Northallerton, Yorks,
"After reading in the August issue of the Land Worker, the messages from top Labour Government ministers on the occasion of the Union's Diamond Jubilee, I was most unfavourably struck by the difference between these flowery protestations of support for agricultural workers in their fight for better pay and conditions and the treatment they receive. When we come to the realities of the situation these politicians must have a poor opinion of the intelligence. of land warkers, Has the time come for trade unions in general and the NUAW in particular to discontinue the support for the Labour Party which they have hitherto shown?"
P, Norman,
Hurstpierpoint, Sussex,
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