; The National Farmers' Union has carried its revolt against
-the Government further than ever before. 'It has threatened in fact if not in name—for the Union itself has apparently repudiated the word " threatened " —to refuse support to the Government at the General Election if the Union's demands for guaranteed prices and safeguarding are not met. The Union has even declared that if safeguarding is not' extended to agri- culture it ought, as a policy, to be dropped altogether. All this sounds so unpractical that one wonders what was the real motive of the resolution. There was no word of gratitude to. the Government for remitting the remaining rates which are le4ied on agricultural land and buildings, or for the beet sugar subsidy, or for the agricultural credits. The resolution was forwarded to the Conservative Agricultural Committee at the House of Commons on Tuesday, but the Chairman of that Committee refused to submit it to the members. The official report of the meeting let the farmers down gently by making no mention of the matter.
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