WHAT THE WORKER WANTS.• WITH commendable journalistic enterprise the Daily
Mail a few weeks ago organized a correspondence from prominent men on the subject of labour unrest. The letters and articles thus accumulated have now been put together in a compact 6d. volume called What the Worker Wants. Among the con- tributors to this volume Mr. H. G. Wells takes the first place both as having started the discussion and as having supplied the larger part of the material. Among other writers are Mr. Sidney Low, Mr. Geoffrey Drage, Lord Hugh Cecil, Mr. Philip Snowden, Mr. John Galswortby, Mr. Norman Angell, and Dr. Arthur Shadwell. The object of most of the writers is not only to indicate what appear to them the causes of the unrest, but also to suggest remedies. On the latter point there is more disagreement than on the former. Most of the writers appear to agree that the cause of the unrest is to be found in the spread of education and in the contrast between the luxury of the rich and the poverty of the poor. One or two writers also lay stress on the rise in the cost of living, but this view is difficult to maintain in face of the fact that the classes among whom unrest has been most noticeable are by no means the poorest paid wage-earners. With regard to remedies the reader of this volume will find an almost unlimited choice, from State Socialism to profit-sharing.
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