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States, no such simple illustration is available, but it is suggested that the Mississippi flood, by des- troying a vast amount of wealth, has reduced purchasing power, with the result that many manu- facturing industries are suffering from a loss of business,'
The actual figures of the pre-| sent period, as compared with the pre-war figures, are startling. A recent report issued by the Minis- try of Health states that in Nov- ember, 1927, the number of [By Harold Cox.]
persons in England and Wales re- Speaking at a women's Union
ceiving outdoor rellef was 951,500, ist Conference, Sir Arthur Steel- A further suggestion is made as compared with 866,767 in Maitland, the Minister of Labour, from American sources that the November, 1918. It is also inter- gave an extremely optimistic nc-mechanisation of industry in the Festing to note that the amount of count of the present position of United States has involved a con- relief given per person was, 59. the employment problem insiderable reduction in the aggre- 11d. in the latter period and only Great Britain. He went, indeed; gato demand for manual labour. | 28: 6d. in the former, The scale so far as to say that "the general That is a very doubtful propost of relief has notoriously been conditions of working life in tion. It is the kind of argument raised, and, in addition, indi- England compared favourably that the less Intelligent manual viduals are allowed to continue with those of any other industrial worker in this and in all countries drawing relief for longer periods." country in the world, not exclud- la fond of using as a ground for Simultaneously the national gov- ing the United States. And this his opposition of labour-saving deernment has been for severnt was true. despite the fact that vices. If through the centuries years engaged in paying un- certain Industries were hard hit that argument had held good, the employment benefit at rates which at the present moment."
world would have stood still. The themselves tempt many persons If the Minister of Labour had progress of industry is due to the to become unemployed. confined his comparison to Euro- constant development of improved
Wages Versus Doles. pean countries it might be accept- methods of production. Such ed as absolutely true. Beyond improvements may, it is true, The money that the local guar- question the British working man temporarily lead to a larger indians and the national govern- is better paid, and has generally crease in' the output of particularment thus scatter broadcast over a shorter working day, than men goods than the world demand can the country does not drop from employed in corresponding indus- absorb; but ultimately improved the sities. It has to be provided tries in other European coun- methods of production, by cheap out of the pockets of ratepayers tries. As regards the United ening the useful or the attractive and taxpayers, and those pockets States, however, it is very doubt things that men and women want. can finally only be filled by the ful whether what Sir Arthur jrender possible a higher standard productiveness of industry. Steel-Maitland said can be sub- of human life, which in turn in-, a word, lavish relief for un- stantiated. It is true that at the volves an extension of industry employment imposes a burden present moment there seems to be to meet the wants of that higher upon industry which adds to the an extraordinary, volume of un- standard.
coats of production, thus dimin- ishing the producer's power to sell employment in the United States.
Growth of Pauperism. Some American newspapers have
his goods, and thus itself increas- gone to the point of saying that
As regards our own special pro-ing the amount of unemployment. This is the essential fact to there are four million people out blems in Great Britain, it is per- of work. Even. if this figure is fectly true, as Sir Arthur Steel-, which the Labour Party especial- exaggerated, the fact, of a great Maitland stated, that the number ly ought to devote its attention. wave of unemployment in the of people actually employed has At present there is a tendency in United States must certainly lead increased as compared with the that party, as well as in the other many people on this side of the pre-war period, but simultaneous-two political parties, to concen- Atlantic to ponder over previous- ly there has been a still larger in-trate effort on a demand for fur- The final ther State assistance for un- ly accepted theories with regard crease in population. to the causes of unemployment.
result is that we now have, ac-employment. That is a plausible cording to official figures, over a attitude in view of the obvious million people drawing unemploy. hardships which unemployment English people have been aptment benefit and nearly as many entails upon the man who is to assume that in North America, drawing outdoor relief. That is honestly seeking work. But if with its vast territory, with a really our essential problemn re- the final issues involved were
American Mechanisation.
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from arbitrary trade union re- nearer to a solution of it by tain that the majority of self- strictions, and with industries re- noting the fact that, in spite respecting English working men latively unburdened by taxation, of this volume of unemployment, would plump for a social system industrial prosperity might be ac- our people are enjoying a higher which rendered possible an exten- cepted as a permanent factor. standard of life than those in sion of industry and the payment of higher wages rather than for a The truth is that in no part of other European countries. the world can uniformity of em- What we have to aim at is to system which itself promotes un- ployment be guaranteed under maintain that higher standard, employment and pauperism.- any economic or social system. and to extend it, but also to get
"Sunday Times." Activity of employment finally de-rid of the ugly fact of the un- pends on activity of demand, and employed remainder. To some
The London Education Committee that may often be affected by cir- 'extent the numbers of unemploy-, recommend an expenditure cunstances over which man can ed are 'actually increased by our £8.480 in extending the London have no control. For example, present national and local devices County Council Trade School for the Lancashire cotton trade has for relieving unemployment. As Girls in Queen-square, Bloomsbury. long been dependent for a con- frequent reports from. the Minis- The demand for extension arises siderable portion of its export|try of Health and in the news-from-n-need-for-improved-accom- business on the Indian demand papers have made clear, numbers modation for the junior school, and for English cotton goods. But so of men and women are drawing a request by the trades, which in- far as that demand comes from the unemployment dole, or draw-clüde tailoring, for more trained the mass of the peasantry it ia in- ing outdoor relief, who could ob-, pupils. The scheme will provide evitably affected by the prosper- tain work if they did not find it accommodation for twenty-five ity of Indian agriculture, and if more profitable to accept public more girls. the monsoon rains fail the Indian | charity, In many cases also.
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