| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 991 |
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broken-spirited and humble `lion's whelps' filled up the forms and answered the questions as meekly as if they had been sheep. The funds of the committee consisted of £500, obtained from the Imperial Exchequer, and about £250 in charitable donations. This money was used to pay wages for certain work - some of which would have had to be done even if the committee had never existed - and if each of the 1,237 applicants had had an equal share of the work, the wages they would have received would have amounted to about twelve shillings each. This was what the `practical' persons, the `business-men', called `dealing with the problem of unemployment'. Imagine having to keep your family for five months with twelve shillings! And, if you like, imagine that |
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