CONDITION QF THE PEOPLE. GREATEST PROBLEM OF ALL.
"ACHILLES' S HEEL." By Telegraph.- Press Association.— Copyright •LONDON, Bth February. Addressing the League of Young Liberals yesterday, Mr. Winston Churchill, "Under-Secretary for the Colonies, said tho greatest problem in the Empire was at Home— namely, the condition of the people. The, problem of unemployment was the Achilles's heel of civilisation. Socialists and tariffites fastened thereon liko greedy vultures, hoping tb be carried into power. Mr. Churchill declared that ho was not prepared to say that all men should be equal, but nobody should have every- 1 thing until everybody had something, j The trend of Liberal policy must be to increasingly build up a minimum standard of life and labour — to provide that above a certain level of decent ! comfort competition shall be free, but that below that level no on© shall be permitted to labour.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1908, Page 7
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