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 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

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