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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THE HOUSING QUESTION Zi On the 17th October, 1920, Dr. Addison, in the Sunday Times, vigorously attacked Labour for its unwillingness to agree to dilution, in the following passage :— " Looked at purely from the point of view of sectional self- preservation, the attitude of the Unions is superficially reasonable. Unemployment has been the bugbear of the trade in the past, and they have often been very badly treated. The contention is that, if the personnel is to be unduly inflated now,unemployment will be even more rife when the present demand is satisfied. The contention is reasonable only on the surface ; because it deliberately ignores the fact that the demand for dwelling-houses alone is sufficient under the most favourable conditions of progress to provide steady work for a largely increased number of workers for a long period of years to come.” Have ever a man’s rash words come home more quickly to roost ? Where to-day is the “ steady work for a largely increased number of workers for a long period of years to come ? " The Labour Party knew their Coalition Ministry better than Dr. Addison did, even when he was a member of it. (He knows them better now.) The far-sightedness and shrewd caution of Labour has saved the building operatives from an intensity of unemployment far worse than that from which they now suffer. It would, however, be unjust not to remind the reader of the way in which Dr. Addison resigned office last year rather than be a party to the reactionary policy and broken pledges of his former colleagues, and of the continual fight he has since made on the platform and with his pen for a return to an adequate Housing policy.

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