HOUSING CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN
A GRAVE CAUSE OF INDUSTRIAL UNREST. (Hoc. August 9, 5.15 p.m.) London, August S. . A Departmental Committee* oil. tlio Housing of tho Working Classes wilL meet to-morrow. The Local Government Board admits that tlioro is a shortage oi half a million houses, ■while other authorities claim that tho shortage is a million, involving an outlay of JKaO.OOO-, 000. Tho housing shortnge admittedly is closely connected with t'ho industrial unrest. The Government Commissioners at Glasgow, Rosy.th, and Dundee report that there is an immediate need for houses for one liundral thousand workers. The Barrow-in-Furness Commissioners stato that hundreds of beds are occupied day and night.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (The cable news in this inane accredited to the London "Times" has appeared in that journal, hut only whore expressly stated is suoh news the editorial opinion of "Tho Times.")
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3159, 10 August 1917, Page 5
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140HOUSING CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3159, 10 August 1917, Page 5
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