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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124 THE HOUSING QUESTION of housing conditions ; if drink and crime are to be successfully combated, decent, sanitary houses must be provided. If * unrest' is to be converted into contentment, the provision of good houses may prove one of the most potent agents in that conversion. . . For these words of the King, his Ministers, the present Coalition Government, were responsible. What kind of “ untiring energy and enthusiasm " have they shewn since ? An old rhyme runs :— " When war is raging and danger nigh, God and soldiers is their cry. When war is done and things are righted, God is forgotten : the soldiers slighted.” A fitting epitaph for the Coalition Government. But although the Coalition Government will doubt less be buried by the verdict of History in the pit into which they have cast their avalanche of broken promises, the fight will continue, and it will need hard and continuing effort on the part of all who wish to help the working men and women of Britain to bring about a real betterment of their conditions. In spite of all the soothing, and often genuinely well-meant words of those who desire a union of feeling between classes, such union can never be brought about under the present grossly unfair economic conditions. The great struggle between the principle of aristocracy and the principle of democracy, which is going on all over the world, will never cease until the conditions which have brought about that struggle are overthrown.

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