for feeding children, the children were not fed, and the Lon 
don School Board, although it was an ad hoc body, did not 
feed the children. Whatever might be said about the resolu 
tion not touching the real cause of destitution, whatever state 
of society they had, some provision would have to be made for 
widows and for sick and aged people. 
H. Holman (Holloway Ethical Society) strongly supported 
the transference of the care of all children from Boards of 
Guardians to the Education Authorities. Until three or 
four years ago the education given in the schools under the 
Boards of Guardians was at least fifty years behind the times, 
and the children in these schools were largely exploited under 
the pretence of industrial training. 
The resolution was supported by W. B. Parker (Islington 
Trades Council) and the amendment was further supported by 
Dr. M. D. Eder and Mrs. D. B. Montefiore, after which C. M. 
Lloyd replied to the discussion. He protested against charges 
being made against the Minority Report, which a reference to the 
pages of the Report itself would show were absurd. It was not a 
question between an ad hoc authority and the Committee of the 
Town Council. If they wanted an ad hoc authority, it was their 
business to agitate for one. The point was that whatever 
authority at present had charge of public health, education, 
or the care of the aged in its district should have transferred 
to it the whole of the powers now partially exercised by Boards 
of Guardians. They must see that local authorities and their 
sub-committees did their work properly. A great deal of 
useful work could be done through Care Committees. It was 
no argument to say that local authorities did not do their 
work properly. It was their business to make them work 
properly. 
The vote on Mr. Quelch’s amendment was then taken, 
when the amendment was rejected by 130 votes to 24. A 
further amendment moved by W. J. Lewington was also 
defeated, and the original resolution (see p. 16) was then 
adopted with only fifteen dissentients. 
SATURDAY MORNING SESSION. 
The chair was taken at 10-30 on Saturday morning by 
John A. Hobson, M.A. 
In his Chairman’s address Mr. Hobson said that this was 
a particularly favourable time for a calm and serious con 
sideration of the malady of Unemployment. They were on a 
wave of bounding trade prosperity, and most of them 
believed that it would continue for the next year or two, 
that the figures of Unemployment would be reduced 
to the lowest dimensions, and they could therefore afford to 
avoid any sort of panic proposals, and consider closely and