Dr. Addison resumed his attacks on his old friend tho
Prime Minister in the House of Commons on Thursday, October 20th, when the resolution granting £25,000,000 for the promotion of trade was considered at the report stage. The Government's proposals to relieve the unemployed wore, he said, " egregiously unworkable" ; the Prime Minister, " with his usual astuteness," had avoided the details. Dr. Addison asserted that the Govern- ment had increased unemployment by cutting down his housing schemes. Sir Alfred Mond dealt faithfully with his former colleague, who, he said, had been chairman of a Cabinet Unem- ployment Committee and yet seemed not to have heard of any of the Government's plans for relieving distress. The Ilford housing scheme, the curtailment of which had annoyed Dr. Addison, was cut down because the City Corporation found the houses " fantastically expensive " and could not get tenants for them at the very high rents which had to be charged.
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