19 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 3

• The Report is full of good sense from end

to end. It -not only emphasizes the necessity of a spirit of responsibility, but warns the nation that preoccupation with the task of providing for unemployment must never obscure the more important matter of getting rid of unemployment itself. -It points out, what is not generally recognized, that specialization is one of the chief causes of unemployment. It is suggested, • therefore, that under a more mobile system of labour men transferring themselves from one industry to another ought to be allowed to work for less than the normal wage until they have learned the new job. The Com- mittee has definitely and boldly broken with methods which demoralize and pauperize. * * *