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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48 THE HOUSING QUESTION Dr. Macnamara : " Unemployment in the building industry at the present moment is of very small proportions, apart from those occupations which are either particularly liable to seasonal fluctuations in demand or have been specially affected by the shortage of craftsmen in the key trades of the industry. There appears to be no need for special legislation to be adopted for the building industry.” Mr. Watbrson : " Am I to understand that these men, who have been put into the industry and trained somewhat at the expense of the taxpayers, will probably, in the course of two years’ time, find themselves on the streets without any employment at all ? ” Dr. Macnamara : “ My Hon. Friend is not to understand that at all, and he will understand this rather remarkable fact that, of all the crafts I know of, there are only two, even in the present grave state of industrial depression, where the number of vacancies offered is smaller than the number of men offered. These two are the bricklayers and the plasterers." Now, on the 17th February, the same Minister had given the following statement as to unemployment in the Building Trade on that date :— Dr. Macnamara : " The number of men in the building trades of the United Kingdom on the live register of Employment Exchanges at 3rd February, the latest for which figures are avail able, is as follows :— " (I give also the vacancies notified). Numbers Vacancies Unemployed. Offered. Carpenters 3.524 817 Bricklayers 238 5.576 Masons 74° 266 Slaters 154 8O Plasterers 228 774 Painters 25,514 55 Plumbers 1,808 147 Labourers ... • ... 32,016 26 "

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