THE HOUSING PROBLEM.
INTERESTING BRITISH EXPERIMENT. By Telegraph.—Press As3n.—Copyright. ■ Received June 7, 2.15 p.m. London, June 5. The attempt to cope with the serious housing problem has resulted in an interesting experiment in London and Manchester in applications of the guild system to socialism, which, it is believed, is destined to revolutionise industrial control. Under the system a trade union ticket is a certificate of membership of a guild, which is designed to mobilise the necessary labor and eventually to undertake nil blanches of building, supplying skilled architects and engineers and carrying on all necessary and desirable public and private work. The labor of a guildman will no longer be a marketable commodity, but a guildman will be "on the strength" for life. It is anticipated a guild will be able to increase the purchasing power of its members' pay by the scientific organisation of production. Discussions have been proceeding with the Ministry of Health with reference to the percentage of cost allowable for management, and this has now been settled on a basis of six per cent., in addition to the remuneration of £4O per house payable by a local authority. —Reuter Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1920, Page 5
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194THE HOUSING PROBLEM. Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1920, Page 5
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