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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. - ^VV >->- - • v , . , ■ . *->#•* THE HOUSING QUESTION 97 defeat a member of the Coalition Government, and the great man got his subsidy, the Minister justifying the payment by saying that the house in question was an interesting experiment, and his Department gave instructions that the application of the reduced schedule be antedated, no doubt to meet the convenience of the nobleman. Compare the above with the following, which illustrates the attitude of the Ministry of Health, as at present directed respectively to the working classes and to their employers. In a certain Rural District the Local Authority, with the approval of the Ministry, had signed a contract for a few houses with a local builder. This contract was on the Ministry’s standard form which provides that a schedule of the wages paid by the contractor should form part of the contract, and that, if the wages actually paid differed from the schedule, the total amount payable on the con tract would be increased or diminished accordingly as the wages paid exceeded or fell short of the schedule. This particular builder, with the knowledge of the Local Authority, paid wages both to skilled and to unskilled men, much below his contract schedule. He said they were " Ex-Service improvers,” though in reality they were as skilled as anyone in the country side (a fact which the rapid progress of the building proved). The excuse was particularly absurd as applied to unskilled men. The local Trade Union representative appealed to the 6

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