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Daily Naor, sthe swriter: Sandford, as he explains, kat within Greater London outlines s scheme for the formation of a Public Utility Society, such as Dr. Addison refers to in his new Housing and Town Planning Bill, to develop 100 acres of suitable land, make bricks, quarry stone, and provide material at nearly cost, and build houses on econo- mical and practical lines to let at about £45 x year:

I am at one with your corres- pondents who complain of the Government's delay in" getting forward with their housing scheme. The scheme ought to have been ready on the signing of the armistice, the new sites have been laid out by the New York, and the concrete now be in POORES of being wheeled into the founda-] tions, ready for the first batch of bricks brought hot from the kiln or clamp in the early summer. Instead, as things are, it is unlike- ly that any serious housing will be started before the autumn, at earliest, or that any considerable number of houses will be ready before next March.

But, even then, what of the position of would-be, tenants, such as "Hunter," who wrote in your issue of March 3, complain- ing of having to live in lodgings and warehouse his furniture?

WHEN THE STATE IS OWNER. | than the rest of the public, and, The Government, rightly in my while they want and indeed in opinion, intend to work mainly WORKERS' PLACE IN NEWsist on national ownership, they through the local authorities. On have no desire to see the mines the one hand, there are a number ORDER.

от the railways "autocrati- of localities with a great local cally administered from an office demand. On the other hand, is writes "Journeyman

asin Whitehall. Both the Miner is admitted that at present prices follows in the Daily News

Federation and the National workmen's housing cannot be Sir Eric Geddes, when he Union of Railwaymen have cou-made to pay, and the Government moved the second reading of the pled with their demand for uation- and the local authority both Ways and Communications Billalisation a claim for a share in propose to subsidise housing- in the House of Commons. dwelt centrol; and it is significant that,

THE MIDDLE-CLASS HOME at great length on the urgent while Mr. Justice Sankey refuses It is obvious that; in these need for "anification" of the to make up his mind at once upon circumstances, the renting of railway service. Mr. Justice the

question of nationalisa- houses built by the local authori Sankey and his colleagues, intion, he has no hesitation ty will be looked upon as a their Interim Report from the in

pronouncing -in favour Government side of the Coal of the miners' demand for a share first be offered to those whose privilege, and this privilege will Commission, are equally emphatic in control. He seems to contem-work is wanted in the district. about the need for unified man-plate the sharing of control by the The tendency will also be for the agement of the mines. But both miners either with the mine-

1 com-

Sir Eric Geddes and Mr. Justice owners or with the State; but the poorest of the manual workers to

be served first, and Sankey are most careful to avoid miners are quite clear in their paratively small number of the using the word "nationalisation."

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LORD CHANCELLOR QUOTED BY SOCIALIST.

[tented in every workshop and induce them to make demands upon the employing class that it was impossible to comply with, so as to render it impossible for that 0 class to carry on.

The Soldiers and Sailors Councils would be carried in, who would form an

principles of national ownership waymen that the State is the houses, which are demanded by and national management. They should share control, which they realise the absolute necessity of May not this provide the way some sort of unification; but they out of the public's difficulty! The are obviously unwilling to com-public dislikes the idea not of For the clerk or business man mit themselves to nationalisation, national ownership, but of looking for A house in # and anxions, if possible, to find bureaucratic management If the residential district not too far

other way out of the State nationalises the mines or the from his work in town, the just reckoped up the quantities difficulty. What is the reason railways the problem will be scheme of building by the local on a post-war basis, and find that for this, reluctance?

that of devising some method of authorities will be of little use. it will now cost about £600. management which is at once His only chance is the Public Land, roads and drains would It is not enough to explain this efficient and democratic. Surely Utility Society; but, if this is to cost, say, another £50 I am in attitude as merely the outcome the way to do this is to enlist the build for him under the new con- hopes that if the Government of a desire not to interfere with active co-operation in the task of ditions, he must recognise the provide some of the material at

William Foster Watson, & well- . the "rights of property, although the workers engaged in these limits of the problem. These are cost, the cost of building may be

Socialist writer," was undoubtedly that desire does play vital services and of their Trade that labour and materials are reduced, say, by £50, leaving the known a part. It is also a fact that Unions. I know that there are still dear, the current rate of interest cottage and land, etc., at £600.* charged at Bow-street recently most people are profoundly many people, especially amongis high and the Public Utility AN ECONOMIC HENT. for having made use of language supicious of the State as an those who have Collectivist Society, though it must not work If the Government lend at 5 calculated to cause disaffection industrial entrepreneur, and ex-sympathies, to whom this seems

at more than a small profit, per cent, and the Society put up amongst the civil population. cedingly fearful of falling out of dangerously revolutionary cannot work at a loss. ·

the balance at the same rate, the The occasion was a speech at the the fryingpan of competitive idea. hardly to be distinguished

the charge for interest alone is £30. "Hands Off Russia" meeting af private Capitalieri into the fire of from Syndicalism or Bolshevism Government must shoulder the Anything less than 5 per cent. at the Albert Hall on February 8. bureaucratic inefficiency. Most or whatever the latest name for burden of higher prices. I think present day would mean lending In support of the prosecution people see clearly that it is im- the lowest ring of Dante's inferno that the Government may fairly at a loss. But suppose that the it was stated that Watson, in his possible to leave the mines and may be. But it is in fact a very be asked to help in the matter of Government rate is é per cent. on speech, advised his audience to industries under purely private different thing, for the proposal is the rate of interest, and by the three-quarters of the cost, the seize upon every little bit of in- control, and realise also that the that the State should own the provision at cost of such materials annual charges then work outsdustrial unrest that manifested present system of partial State mices and the coal that is gotten as joinery lead and glass which

itself in any part of the country, follows: control is very "wasteful and es- from them, the actual work of

be

and.to use their efforts to extend supplied wholesale. sentially temporary. But they managing and organising the Beyond this I do not think that Five per cent. on £150...7 10 0 They were to get people discon- Four per cent on £450 £1800 the unrest over other industries. do not want nationalisation if supply being largely and to Government can be expected to another solution can be found. an increasing extent delegated to go; and I am afraid that the There are therefore tempted to the miners

No themselves. make play with the idea of one pretende that such a system national trust, in which mine-can be established completely at owners and miners, railway com- once; it is indeed rather an ideal

THE IDEA IN DETAIL. railway workers, to which a gradual approach panies and

I am a landlord, just within would enter into a sort of partner-should be made than a proposal Greater London; and, if the ship for a unified control of the immediately to be applied in full. Government finance it, am pre- But it does provide a safeguard pared, with my friends, to form a

to make the supreme, sacrifice This solution, however, is seen against burcaucracy, and also a Public Utility Society and develop computation. At the higher rate to be prepared, if necessary to be impossible for two different means of enlisting the active help at least 100 acres of suitable land, the figure is about £45; and on for their principles. Teasons. If the miners and the of the workers in making industry if there is what the old econo top of this come rates, water, light Mr. George Lansbury, editor mineowners, or the railway com-as efficient as possible.

mists called an effective demand and heating rates alone at least of the Herald, gave it as his panies and the railwaymen WORKING FOR THE COMMUNITY. for the houses to be built upon it. 1-3rd, probably more. In other opinion that the speech com- would agree to enter such a

I make bricks and tiles, burn words, the would-be tenant is hit plained of was not seditious. It This is really the crux of the partnership they would clearly problem. If the mass of the lime, quarry stone and dig sand twice over, fint by the dearness of was the business of Bocialists to wield in common such a power people are really to have better and gravel, and I have available materials and labour, and second make people discontented with that the community could have conditions and a higher status, a fair amount of hand wood tim by the high rate of interest. As a bad social conditions, and in his no adequate safeguard against and not merely wages that are ber. I am therefore able to offer result he will have to pay about view it was tomfoolery to bring being exploited by them. Gigantic nominally higher, it is vital that an unusual quantity of the double what he paid before thewar Watson before the Court

dock. Speaking from the trusts of Capital and Labour the efficiency and productivity of necessary local material at nearly and in addition will have to do

most of the internal repairs, as Watson quoted passages from might be more efficient than the industry should be greatly in- cost. present system, but the day of creased. How can this After some considerable ex- the income tax allowance of 1-6th the speeches delivered by Sir their creation would certainly be be done unless the workers perience in building. I have hit is only about sufficient to cover Edward Carson, M.P., and Siz. F. a black day for the consumer, are actively interested and

I should be glad to hear from Birkenhead and Lord Chancello that is, for the general public. enfisted in the task? And is it upon a plan which I think is keeping the structure in order. Smith, M.P. (now Low about as economical as possible The other reason is even more not the case that the most likely for a cottage, well built, comfort your readers their criticism on during the Ulster trouble before final Neither the miners nor way of enlisting their sympathy able, and not cramped by the these figures, and to learn whe- the war, and he argued that if the railwaymen have the smallest and active help is not merely by old-fashioned back addition. It the demand for other than sub they were allowed to go free he inclination to enter such a part offering them higher wages, but gives a kitchen, small parlour, sidised housing is an effective one was entitled to the same treat nership, Their demand is that still more by giving them the scullery, larder and coal-house the mines and railways shall be feeling that they are really on the ground floor, one large nationally owned, and run, not public servants, working freely bedroom and one surailer, a bath-

ing Watson too mixa, montás, for private proft, but for the for the community and to the room, and water-cinset on the national greatest possible extent control frst floor, an attic room for the

BUENED TO DRATE IN BED, urprisonment ins public benefit as "services.

The Rey, Edward Parry, pastor division, observed i ing the conditions, under which boya, and perhaps a small box-

he Defence of the Festina they work? In may be ng room. I propose to lay on hot of the Presbyterian Church at been fined for an offerase actu This may seem to bring us but I at least believe that that is and cold water to the bath-room, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, for back to nationalisation with all the only real solution of the necessitating a high-pressure

nearly 40 years, and Miss Mad but had not He attendant dangers of bureau problem of narest, and the only boiler, and to wire for electric

ins, at hose house he lodged But both the miners and real way of securing that increase ight, or pipe for gas, at option.

were both burnt to death in fre ymen are quite clear in inefficiency and output which

service concerned.

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