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Correspondence 



UNEMPLOYMENT 



To the Editor of Discovery 



I have read with interest Professor Knoop's article 

 on the problem of unemployment in your November 

 issue, but I am afraid I do not agree with him. Unem- 

 ployment is, in my opinion, not the penalty of capitalism 

 and of industrialism. There is no unemployment in 

 Germany and in Belgium. It is principally due to the 

 unreasonableness of organised labour. There cannot 

 be universal over-production. There can only be ill- 

 balanced production. The great business of the world 

 has always been and is still the exchange of goods between 

 town and country. The prices of country goods, of raw 

 materials, of foodstuffs, etc., have fallen disastrously. 

 Grain, copper, rubber, and many other things are below 

 1914 prices. The raw producers and farmers throughout 

 the world have been vastly impoverished, but organised 

 labour both in England and in the United States refuses 

 to allow the lowering of wages or the speeding up of pro - 

 duction, and the result is that the impoverished people 

 throughout the world cannot buy manufactured goods 

 from England and the United States, but buy them from 

 Germany, Belgium, and other countries which produce 

 more cheaply. 



There need not be any unemployment in this country. 

 Hundreds of thousands of houses want building and 

 millions are in shocking disrepair. The housing trade and 

 the trades connected with it could give work to a million 

 people, provided that labour was reasonable, and gave a 

 fair day's work for a fair wage. At least 500,000 servants 

 are needed, but they are not obtainable. Meanwhile 

 half a million women are drawing the dole. The Con- 

 tinent has been impoverished by the war, the oversea 

 countries by the fall in prices, and England by over-taxa- 

 tion. Unemployment is due to the fact that labour 

 refuses to cut its coat according to the cloth available. 

 The shops are full of imported goods which Englishmen 

 refuse to produce at prices which the consumer can pay. 



What is wanted is not so much the lowering of wages 

 as the speeding up of production. Doubling output 

 means halving labour costs. On an average the American 

 worker produces as much as three English workers. 



Yours, etc. 

 F. Ellis Barker. 

 Albion Lodge, Fortis Green, 



East Finchley, N.2. 

 November 24, 1921. 



To the Editor of Discovery 



Sir, 



The suggestion contained in Mr. McLaggan's letter 

 re unemployment in your December number appears 

 to rest largely on the assumption that it is essentially 

 technical or craft knowledge that is required for the 

 successful carrying on of an industrial enterprise. It 



