15 JANUARY 1921, Page 13

A. SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT. (To THE EDITOR

OF THE " SPF.CTATOR.") Sta,—In view of the growing volume of unemployment and the consequent serious situation, why does no one in the House suggest to the Labour Party the advisability of Trade Unions setting up factories and workshops of their own? Labour has large funds at its disposal, which could not be better employed than in giving work to its own class, for which it always claims a monopoly of brains and industry. As no Labour troubles could arise in a community of equality and fraternity, where strikes and Ca' canny policy would be unknown, and all profits shared entirely among the workmen, the factories could produce at less cost than their capitalist rivals, and demonstrate the often vaunted superiority of Labour theories over Capitalist methods.—I am, Sir, &c.,

COM3ION SENSE.