ABSTRACT
On 11 June 1921 the Norfolk News carried the word that in London great things had happened. For many months at least a section of the farmers had been agitating for the repeal or, better still, the modification of the Agriculture Act, and now, in the first week of June, on the eve of haysel, they got repeal. The Act had protected the labourer against the vagaries of the market price of agricultural products and guaranteed a minimum wage. Now this was all gone. As George Edwards said, it was ‘the greatest betrayal of the agricultural industry that any government has ever been guilty of’. 1
