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PASS ON PAMPHLETS. No. 8.
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The Remedy
for
Unemployment
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By DENNIS HIRD, M.A.
No. 46—JESUS THE SOCIALIST.
By DENNIS HIRD, M.A.
No. 47.—SEVENTEEN SHOTS AT SOCIALISM.
By R. B. SUTHERS.
This is an answer in brief to Seventeen Common Objections to Socialism.
No. 48.—THE CASE FOR SOCIALISM.
By F. HENDERSON.
Deals with the Compensation and Confiscation question.
No. 49.—THE PERIL OF POVERTY.
By Councillor McLACHLAN.
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THE REMEDY FORUNEMPLOYMENT.
The reason why I wrote the present pamphlet (whichfirst appeared in the “Socialist Review,” and is nowreprinted in a slightly modified form) was that,although there is a small body of avowed Socialistsin Parliament, not one of them has, so far as I amaware, upheld any of the fundamental principles ofSocialism as a means of dealing with the greatest ofpresent-day problems—that of chronic unemploymentand starvation all over our land. Let meillustrate what I mean by a few examples. Perhapsthe most fundamental and universally admittedaxiom of Socialism is that all production shouldbe, primarily, for use and not for profit; and thenext in importance is that the true or proper wagesof labour is the whole product of that labour.
But neither in Parliament nor out of it