has been the drudge of our society. It must be the task of Labour to 
nll him to a new partnership in progress and civilisation. 
A Labour Government, therefore, will secure to the agricultural 
worker, in place of the unending toil for a bare subsistence which is 
his lot at present, an adequate minimum wage, effectively enforced, 
insurance, through a scheme specially designed to meet his needs, 
against unemployment, reasonable hours of labour, a fuller social life 
for his family, and ampler educational opportunities for his children. 
ft will see that he has access to land, whether for the purpose of a 
small holding or of an allotment. It will give him security in his home, 
will free him from the danger of summary eviction from it at the will 
of a master, by ensuring that possession shall in no case be granted 
to the landlord or farmer until suitable alternative accommodation has 
been provided, and will introduce legislation with the object of 
abolishing the evils of the tied cottage. It will solve the problem created 
by the shortage of housing by pressing forward the development, on a 
national scale, of housing schemes in rural areas. 
Fishing Industry 
The Labour Party is equally determined to improve the condition 
of the fishing industry and of those dependent on it. It has already 
appointed a special committee to advise it on the subject, and a Labour 
Government will institute a thorough official investigation into the 
problems involved, with a view both to the development of the industry 
and to the amelioration of the lot of fishermen and their families. 
Nor can the Party be indifferent to the needless suffering to-day 
endured by animals. In common with most persons of humanity, it 
regards the infliction of cruelty upon them, whether under the name of 
sport or for purposes of profit, as barbarous and repulsive, and it will 
welcome the extension of protective legislation designed to prevent it. 
THE NATION OF TO-DAY 
The Labour Party and Women 
The Labour Party claims a special response frem the women 
electors. It advocated the extension of the franchise to women on the 
same terms as men at a time when the older political parties were either 
opposed to this advance, or so torn with dissensions that they were 
powerless to concede it. It has never wavered in its adhesion to the 
principle of the fullest equality of opportunity, both political and 
sconomic, for men and women alike. 
The Party welcomes the influence of women in politics, not oniy 
in the sphere of the social services, where their knowledge, experience 
and aspirations are indispensable, but in the realm of international 
relations and the cause of world peace. Its policy is based on the belief 
that women have common interests with their husbands, sons and 
brothers, and that its principles and ideals appeal to citizens irrespective 
of sex. But it realises also that women are specially concerned with 
the development of the social services—with care for the mother 
and infant, for the child and the sick, for the bereaved, the aged and 
the workless, with the general conditions of home life, and with the