The London Guild of Builders.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 1 October 1920, Page 48

The London Guild of Builders.

Mr. G. D. H. Cole, writing from the Labour point of view on the London Guild of Builders, says: “ The Guild absolutely declines to work for, or to make, profit; it offers to build for the public at cost price, this price including the cost of materials and of labour at the hourly rate, plus 10 per cent, on these costs to meet (a) the cost of plant and administration, and (b) the cost of guaranteeing to every worker employed by the Guild a full week’s wages even if weather conditions compel him to stop work for part of the time.” The Guild declines to work on an ordinary profit-and-loss basis. , Mr. Cole states that “the essential principle of the Building Guilds, which now exist in a considerable number of centres, is that the public will best be served if all those who are required Tor, the actual work of building—architects, technicians, administrators, craftsmen, and labourers—bind . themselves together into single fraternity, with the sole object of building houses and doing all sorts of constructional work, and not with the object of realising any profit at all” V ,