11, 1937
THE WORLD GOES BY
TH
British
known political correspondent, is con- sidering plans to eliminate from the labour market all those who, because of age,
want of training, or lack of adaptability, are unemployable.
and call it a
Nevertheless, it may not be easy for society to adapt itself to the idea that displaced workers have a right to a private income and a home of their
at work shan't eat, the man who wasn't allowed shouldn't eat much.
that it somew work
One final conjecture far is this principle
Removing one's ga
be
How
They called in the aid of Sound Fin- ance (which can always be relied one observes many other kinds "Plan For Men Who Can't Work, Jown For one thing - what is to upon to create a shortage in the most Workers who display marked naftnes
come of social distinctions
discouragingly affluent circumstances
for their occupations togethe pronounced lack of adaptability and put the diet of the memployed on fan Actuarial Basis.
one newspaper calls
The idea is to take them out of com- petition with those who are better able to take the jobs that are offered, and. prevent them from keeping better qua- lified men out of a job longer than need be
One proposal is to provide them with small holdings a small bungalow, payment of unemployment benefit, and a few chickens, on the strict under standing that they withdraw complet ly from the labour market.
It is one thing to create a lot of new peers to save a political situs- tion It is another and more awk- ward thing to create a lot of new gentlemen of leisure to save an in- dustrial situation.
With the result that for fifteen years we have been working under the revised version: “Who doth not work neither shall he have jam for
We find, for example, state
who fail to adapt their policy to the needs and temper of an amiable and home. loving nation We find also leading bankers and economists who fail adapt the money income of the cor Again, it marks a drastic change in
munity to the potential-output of its the attitre of the Government to-
This restriction is now ended. The agriculture and industry. wards the working-class. For a long
It is a pity that these persons, who, time our rulers have found it very hard social status of the workless man is to act up to the old rule "Who doth now to be raised from Criminal to by all reasonable standards, should be not work neither shall he eat.
Economic Independence. His soul wall classed as "Unemployable Through They continued to believe (as we all be officially acknowledged free from Lack of Adaptability, should be per- do, I hope) in the nobility, the gran sin. There is no historic precedent for mitted to keep better qualified men. This seems a fair offer an income
deur, and the whatnot, of work, and such change of classification. Form- out of their jobs. and a bungalow in return for a pro- that there must be something morally ally, a hierarchy did not canorrise its And yet I don't know whether
of mise not to look for work.
they would make much of a Indeed, one's first reaction is a sus-rong with a man who hasn't got any martyrs until after they were dead.
I shall, however, withhold my con- a small holding and a few picion that one's ears are not quite But they hesitated to punish the work-
They would - probably clean. "Say that again!" is the phraseer with starvation while they permit-gratulations until the report of this
Ited mechanisation to take his work epoch-making revolution has been of chickens because of the that leaps involuntarily to the lips."
icially confirmed by the Ministry of hicken-feed
The chief difficulty, I imagine, în starting the scheme will be how to dealt with the large number of people who will claim to be unemployable.
There is something in the offer which tends to give a man
BY "ULYSSES"
of unfitness for work. Modesty over- comes him, and he feels a desire to stand aside and let a worthier man take his place.
Among a less patriotic people the scheme, might be unworkable. But the English are accustomed to making Sacrifices in the public interest. Time and again, in our rough island story, they have shown themselves wiling, on receipt of suficient private means, to renounce the pleasures of work for the sake of others whose need is great- er than theirs.
In times of need every true En- glishman is ready, on the offer of adequate maintenance (plus bunga- low and fowls) to lay down his tools for his country.
"I should never forgive myself,” he will say, “If I thought that by refus- ing a pound a week and a cottage for
IRAQ PROTEST ON PALESTINE
London, To-day.
Questioned in the Commons about the alleged protest by the Iraqi Government regarding Pale stine, Lord Cranborne said the Bri- tish Government had received
unications from the Iraqi Government as from othe Arab Governments stating their views, which were well-known, re- garding policy and action in Pale-
stine.
The British Government were res- ponsible not to any other foreign Government but to the League of Nations for their administration of Palestine in general the treat ment of Palestinian citizens, but the Government had no reason to ppose the Iraqi Government were not aware of that fact nor was there anything ince stent with it in the terms of the com
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