Municipal And Private Operation of Public Utilities; Relative to the Labor Report of the National Civic Federation Commission On Public Ownership And Operation
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Not yet can this be said of the American workingman. Poverty in Great Britain has reached the point at which it is affrighting the nation. London alone had 140,000 paupers last year. It has 70,000 to 80,000 "lodgers." The general physical deterioration of Englishmen is shown in the repeated reductions of the army standard of height. The London Daily Standard, July 5 last, said: "The upshot amounts to this, that the poor quarters in all our great cities have become reeking, overcrowded hives of ...only partially employed, underfed, and rapidly degenerating men and women, from whom fate and their own action, destiny and the con- THE LABOR REPORT. 87 ditionB of their life seem to have removed all rights, and all power, save the continuance and reproduction of their downward-tending species." The nuniber of emigrants last year from Britain was 270,000, nearly every one driven out by the menace of poverty. In addition to the usual appropriations for the 800,000 paupers of the Kingdom, $440,000 was spent last year under the Unemployed Workmen act, the sum this year being made $1,000,000, while the amount to be given In the local authorities and the charitable for the same purpose was expected to reach possibly $1,000,000 more.
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