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for wife and children, until a situation could be found. Thus, 
instead of being (as at present) deteriorated by every spell of 
bad trade and by the idleness of unemployment, or demoralised 
by the casual jobs of sham employment at one or other of the 
forms of “navvying” that we call Relief Works, the man (or 
woman) for whom, in spite of all our efforts, no situation 
could be found, would be positively benefited in body and mind 
by the spell of training, under absolutely healthy conditions, 
with a perfect diet and regular hours absorbing the whole 
day in organised varied work and recreation, for which the 
unemployment had given the chance. But no one need under 
go the training. He would always have the alternative, by 
means of insurance, of drawing out-of-work pay. 
Doubtless some would be found incapable of any improve 
ment ; unemployable through physical defects, unemployable 
owing to epilepsy, unemployable through feeble-mindedness, 
unemployable by reason of premature old age. For these the 
community has to provide, honourably and generously, in 
whatever way is appropriate to their state. For it is the 
most costly and the most extravagant of all ways by which 
these unfortunates are fed, for them to compete in the open 
labour market and pull down the Standard of Life of those 
who are whole. 
Finally, for the man who was found, on trial, absolutely 
recalcitrant—the man who refused to work, who persisted in 
being irregular in his habits, who refused to insure, who 
refused to be trained, and who left his wife and children to 
suffer or to be maintained at other people’s expense—the man 
whom we now send to prison—for him even something better 
ought to be done than prison. The Minority Report urores that, 
instead of sending him to gaol, there o unfit. to be a Reforma 
tory Detention Colony, to which he could, on conviction for 
some existing crime, be committed by the magistrate, until 
his bad habits and his anti-social characteristics were in all 
kindness “sweated out of him.” 
Vm. C. Anderson (Chairman I.L.P.) then moved the 
resolution which, as amended, will be found on page 29. 
He said that behind the resolution was the idea that 
organisation should be brought to bear upon the labour market 
with the view, not only of getting the work well and 
efficiently done, but at the same time taking greater care of 
the valuable human element. Work was done to-day without 
any regard to the human element behind it, which ought to 
be taken fully into account. This could only be done by 
organisation on the part of the nation. After all had been 
done that could be done in the direction of the organisation 
of labour there would still be a certain number of unemployed 
left, and the nation should accept responsibility for these and