We deal with some aspects of the question of unem-
ployment and the need for exceptional methods else- where. Here we may note two facts which show how those whom we may call the professional unemployed— that is, the men who are using unemployment for political aims—exploit the miseries of the rank and file. Here is a passage from Out of Work, the organ of the unemployed, quoted by the Times of Monday, which states quite frankly the aims of the organizers of the hunger marchers :— " If we are able to establish that great principle of 'work or maintenance,' we shall have travelled a long way towards bringing about the abolition of capitalism. We shall have struck at the very roots of capitalist society—in fact, we shall have shattered one of the corner-stones of a system of society based upon rent, interest and profit—a system which makes unemployment a necessity. And in the crash that will follow will be the golden opportunity of the working class to take over the means of pro- duction and distribution in the interests of the workers and not the few."
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