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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9 8 THE HOUSING QUESTION Ministry that they should enforce their own clause in the contract, which laid down that the workmen should be paid neither more nor less than the standard building-trade wages in the district. The fact that these men were being paid much less than the standard rates could not be disputed, nor could it be disputed that the builder was making a great deal more profit (all out of the pocket of the taxpayer) than his contract and its schedule entitled him to. In spite of repeated representations, the Ministry have refused to interfere and have allowed, firstly, the workmen to be paid all the time a sweated wage, directly contrary to the terms of the contract, and, secondly, have allowed this builder to obtain from the Treasury a sum far in excess of that to which he was entitled under his contract. This scandalous case is typical of the attitude of the officials of the Ministries of Health and of Labour during the last three years towards working men. There is a Government Committee, known as the Building Labour Committee, composed principally of representatives of these Ministries. This Committee adjudicates on claims by local operatives to obtain standard rates of wages, which of course vary from district to district. The decisions of the Building Labour Committee have been all along unfavourable to the claims of working men. Even in cases where an Award by the Local Conciliation Board has gone in favour of the men, the Ministry of Health have refused to be bound

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