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EXPERIMENT IN GUILD SOCIALISM.
LABOUR BUILDING
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They foresee no difficulty in the organization of labour. Democra- tic control presents no very great problems to them. They would apply democratic principles to the appointment of all the officials, from the chief director down- Manchester, January 14. The wards. The foremen might be preliminaries of a practical ex-appointed by the Guild Committee periment in Guild Socialism are being worked out by the building trade unions in Manchester. with the immediate object of providing homes for the people and the ultimate hope of demonstrating the ability of a guild of the workers to control an industry under modern conditions."
or by the men engaged on the particular job. They see little ad- Vantage in the one method overthe other, so long as the result is the carrying on of the work with the Assent and goodwill of the workers. Voluntary obedience to conditions the men themselves frame will, in the opinion of the Guild pro- The scheme has made headway moters, be more effective in pro- among the local committees of moting industry than relutant the different unions. Most of authority. They also shy they them heartily approve it. There uld set their scheme in eper. is uncertainty about the attitude ation in a month.
of the slaters and perhaps another
of the men's organizations, büt
its
A MONOPOLY OF LABOUR.
the rest seem resolved to give It is proposed that the Guild their adhesion to the scheme. A should tender for and accept delegate meeting of the Manches-contracts to build artizans' houses. ter branch of the National Feder. At this point, where the Guild ation of Building Trade Oper- begins to get in touch with atives has this week pledged established authorities, and per cooperation and support.haps with antagonistic organiz
enthusiast
Lasations, difficulties multiply, but been largely instrumental in the Guild advocates' final answer shaping the project tells me that to them all is based on the the operative builders have monopoly of labour that the Guild received it as though it were an would possess. To indicate what Apocalyptic vision pointing is in their minds, let it be imagin labour to a new earth. They see ed that the brickmakers withheld
The
who
the
in it a means not only of getting supplies of bricks. The Guild on with the work of building would reply by stopping all use houses, but also of approaching of bricks in the area governed by ideals in industry which have the badies constituting hitherto seemed almost unattain- Guild... able except in the writings of the theorists. Mass meetings of the several unions are to be held. in order that the scheme may be set before the rank and He and that they may be fired with the same enthusiasm which animates the leaders.
"QUICKER BUILDING: CHEAPER
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The relations with the Housing Committee would require exact! definition. One thing made quite definite is that the Guild would not enter into any financial guarantee. The building tracts wonld be on the lines proposed for private builders and approved organizations, the price being determined by actual cost, plus & percentage to include The idea is to set up in Man-overhead charges and net profit. chester a Building Guild Com- The Guild would be on the same, mittee representing all the build- footing as associated contractors, ing trade unions, but composed but it is contended that while it of as few members as possible. is right and proper that the It is hoped that the membership private builder should enter into will be limited to 10 or 12, in- à bond, because his financial cluding a representative from the stability must be guaranteed. all administrative side and another that it is necessary for the Build- from the technical and architec-ing Guild Committee to guarantee tural side. The nucleus of this is the supply of labour.
The committee already exists, and has essential thing, so the argument made a tentative offer to the runs, is the building of houses. Housing Committee of the city The Guild would control the to build 2,000 houses.
labour to build them, and, having The advocates of the proposal furnished proof of that control. essert that the organized workers should not be called upon in the industry can erect houses to give any other guarantee. more quickly and more cheaply In the language of the if they can establish conditions writers Guild Socialism,
on which exclude the profiteer. The group credit, based
on the Manchester City surveyor esti power to produce, should be mates that the average bricklayer substituted for bank credit, will build six houses a year, but based upon the purchasing power leaders of the Guild Committee of gold.
assert that under their scheme. A further difficulty arises out a man will erect nine houses à of the disability of trade unions year. The city surveyor's cal- to engage in trade. culation is that the building of an fore proposed that the
It is there- artizan's house to-day will cost should tender through a nominee Guild £940; the Guild Committee's calor alternatively, should assume culation is that they could put up legal powers and re-ponsibilities a better house for £800.
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"The proposal to amend the Customs Tariff Law introduced | joy the Government into the Diet now sitting," says the Jiji, is a declaration of the trade policy which the Government intends to pursue after the war The chiefi features of the proposed amend- ment are (1) that & Dumping In- vestigation Committee be official- ly organised and that, on import- ed goods which have been found on investigation to be dumped, such duty as will bring their price up to a legitimate-figure be additionally Juvied over and above the present duty; (2) that dyestuffe and chemicals be placed under more pronounced protect- ion; and (3) that certain materials be made duty.free in order to facilitate their import- ation. Itis ofcourse necessary that materials should be duty-free. Nor bare, we anything to say against a policy for protecting vital industries which newly sprang into existence during the war, provided that such protection be limited to a suitable period. But as to organisation of an in- vestigation committee for the purpose of anticipating dumping, which seems to be the principal object of the Bill under con- sideration, it must be asked in what circumstances the Goreza- Dent fears the possibility of dumping. The Powers are too [busily occupied with, their work of raconstruction at home to have any surplus of reserve left for starting dumping abroad. They are rather afraid of dumping against them. Another important question to be considered in this: connection is how the authorities are going to define dumped goods.' It may be all right theoretically to regard goods as dumped when imported at prices lower than those at the place of production. As a matter of practice, however this definition will not always work because of a change in the and technique of production fluctuation of prices, and the upshot will be to hold goods dump- ed when imported at prices cop- siderably lower than those of goods of a similar nature mede in Japan. In short, the first criterion for determining whether goods are, or are not, dumped will be prices prevailing here. "But as prices in this country are unduly going up. it is easy to imagine that many legitimate imports will have the same effect on Japanese industries as dumped goods. Things may go well enough should the committee patiently hear what both produc. ers and importers have to say before determining which goods are dumped and which are not; but as such a course is evidently impracticable the committee will be always acting under the influence of some producer, or other and imposing various hardships even on legitimate imports, and the same evil may be experienced ad 'if an extreme i protectionist policy was in force. At least, so long as prices do not get lower, it is clear that the whole procedure will end in bringing about a further fise in prices and accentuating. the evil which is alr ady so keenly felt. Such being the case, it is proper for the Govern- ment to adjust prices first and then proceed to prevent dumping It is to put the cart before the horse to let prices go up as much as they like on the one hand and to make a fuss on the other hand about the prevention of dumping which is to be feared as a result of a rise in prices. Prices may be adjusted in various ways but the first thing to do must always be to make supplies ample and abundant, policy calculated to restrict im ports by an imirosition of higher duties and bring up prices is) objectionable even though it mBY be urged under the fine pretext of protecting industries, as is done in the present case. In our view, the most important of economic needs at the present day is an adjustment of prices and every policy which is likely to have an opposite result may well be de- ferred to some future date."
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