THE SOCIAL AFTERMATH.
"Only the other day," says The Times, "a member was talking about the money that would be wanted for housing after the war, and evidence is always cropping up to show that 'social reform' still fills the minds' of politicians and officials as the real business before them. The war is only an episode in their eyes. Commenting on this the Westminster Gazette says, "We are fully alive to the difficulty which will exist after the war in the way of all social schemes costing money, but we also wonder whether the millions of citizens who have fought and bled fcr their country will be quite so contemptuous of the claims of 'social reform.' "We are constantly told that the war is to make an entirely new set of conditions. We very largely agree, and we cannot help wondering whether the people of this country will be willing to see unaltered the present housing conditions. Is the agricultural labourer in the trenches to look forward to 15s a week and a bad house as the best his country can do for him wheu he has helped it to victory!'*
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 11
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