9 
FOREWORD 
An attempt is made in this book to present to the 
Electors an account, as brief as is consistent with a 
fair measure of completeness, of the manner in which 
the late Government have carried out their promises 
to the men who won the war, and to all, men and women 
alike, who, on the strength of those promises, placed 
them in office in December, 1918. 
The Government, with those who supported them, 
conscious of the fact that they have failed to carry 
out the promised rehousing of the working classes 
and clearance of the slums, which have so long dis 
graced our country and produced a C3 population, 
have endeavoured to throw the blame for their own 
failures and broken pledges on to all and sundry 
except upon themselves. 
More especially have they sought occasion by every 
excuse which they could invent to inflame public 
opinion against the working-classes, who contributed 
with their own lives and suffering to the winning of 
the war. It is an old truth that a man dislikes no one 
so much as him whom he has injured. No doubt it 
is with some such instinct as this that Mr. Lloyd 
George has called working men Bolshevists (would he 
say so to-day ?), and that Sir Alfred Mond has con 
demned them as idlers. 
It will perhaps therefore be convenient if we enter