The housing question

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Identifikator:: 1023104237

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-61777

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The housing question

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (125 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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ere :he Lve mg bit of :en cal ng ild yas :he in, :he mt mt ite t’s )Ut ely not uld ian THE HOUSING QUESTION 47 of the Manchester Housing Committee. He does not want more houses ; he wants more plasterers. He says : " ' The scheme was begun in July, 1919. There are now 2,020 men engaged on the scheme, of whom 195 are plasterers. Altogether 2,000 houses have been begun, of which 890 are finished. Of the remainder, 1,137 are roofed in, 364 are awaiting plasterers, and have been in some cases for six months.’ " I am told there are unemployed plasterers ! Why do no* you get them into Manchester ? . . . " The letter goes on : " ' An attempt has been made, without success ’—this is im portant, and I hope the Hon. Member will note it—' to induce the local Federation to vary the demarcation under which the different sections of the trowel trades work so as to overcome the delay caused by shortage of plasterers. Eighty plasterers could be kept in full employment for six months.’ " Why cannot you get over the line of demarcation ? ” Mr. William Graham : " Is it not the case that in Manchester an agreement has been reached under which if there is an insuffi ciency of plasterers, bricklayers will do the work, and should not that be brought out ? " Sir A. Mond : " If the Hon. Member has information to that effect I accept it, and am very pleased to have it. . . .” As an example of the standard of intelligence of Ministers on Housing, the following conversation in the House of Commons, on 2nd March, 1921, is worth recording:— Mr. Waterson asked the Minister of Labour, seeing that the Government are arranging for dilution in the building trade, if he is prepared to draft legislation to prevent unemployment in such industry ; and, if not, what hopes has he that the men employed as dilutees will be able to secure a livelihood in the future ?

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