Yet there' is something radically wrong in a state of things that enables a man to have at his command innumerable luxuries without doing anything to earn them. A Labour Government is likely "to these amenities by an increase in the allowances. No Government would dure to reduce them, hearted indi Hopkinsot demand the abolition of all those devices to ameliorate unemployment. If this were don they say, the workers would compete more desperately for worl wages would come down; production would go up; and very" soon we should win back our old place on the world's markets. It is a false a sumption. The menaced workers: would be more likely to combine and land a more attentive ear to the agitators who tell them that the only solution of their miseries lies in the abolition of the capitalist system, That the out-of-works should be employed importance" has long been a plank the Labour programme. It is, however, doubtful if it will ever be plank they will walk on. To en ploy inefficient factory-bred workers on out-of-door work at less than the ordinary navvy's wages would bring! official Labour into disrepute with trade unionists, and to pay such labour the full rate would provoke opposition from anti-waste enthusiasts. The trade depression has been so prolonged that foremen and employers have snow weeded the old and less fit workmen out of their factories and the bulk of the pre-gent unemployed are not of the type for heavy outdoor work. Labour's. policy, will be an increase of the "dole," and the abolition of the gap between payments. This will increase unemployment and the burden on those who reniain in work. The solution of the problem seems as far off as ever.
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