From Workhouse to Westminster: the Life Story of Will Crooks, M.P.
From Workhouse to Westminster: the Life Story of Will Crooks, M.P.
George Haw
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Such men, trained in useful agricultural work, if they felt they had little chance in this country, would then have some equipment for the colonies. A country like Canada, for instance, had no use for men who had simply been loafing about English towns, but would very quickly find work for men who had had a little training and discipline on the land. It would be better for the whole community that something of this sort should be done than that we should go on with the present Digitized by Goog...le 232 WORKHOUSE TO WESTMINSTER. system of doles and relief, whose effects, like idle- ness, only demoralised. The appeal to the House on that occasion fell on deaf ears. The winter of 1904 was made memorable to him by the creation of the Central Unemployed Committee. For several years he had urged that the Poor Law Unions of London should be em- powered to form a central committee to deal with the unemployed on well-organised lines. With the several Unions acting separately, confusion and waste followed on well-meaning efforts.
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