[Pppehrserver-law-eu] , we cannot be far wrong in coming to the conclusion that in Fra

Sun Dec 6 13:29:59 CET 2009

 of being overcome. It is surely possible to devise a rule which, while
leaving intact the essential features of the present system, will render
it more flexible--a rule to enable the maimed and the aged who cannot do
a full day's work to make, through the Union if need be, some special
arrangement with the employers. Such a rule, if properly safe-guarded to
prevent abuse, would be of inestimable benefit to many a working man. If
the step here suggested were adopted by the Trade Societies, it would,
according to calculations which I have made, reduce the begging
population by about two per cent. This percentage, in my opinion,
represents the number of vagrants who are able and willing to do a
certain amount of work, but cannot get it to do. It is a percentage
which at any rate does not err on the side of being too low; when trade
is at its ordinary level it is perhaps a little too high. In any case
this proportion may be taken as a tolerably accurate estimate of the
numbers of the vagrant class which will not e
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