Monday, October 8, 2018

A "Royal" Solution of Unemployment. (1922)

From the December 1922 issue of the Socialist Standard
  The Prince, like many other people, is seriously concerned at the unemployment question and the distinctly gloomy outlook for the winter, and has studied recent official statistics on this closely during the past few weeks.—Daily News, 15/9/22.
   Economies are being made at the Royal Mews. The team of black horses which draws the King’s coach on State occasions, and was substituted for the famous but expensive cream horses, is to be dispensed with. A number of men will go at the same time.—Daily News, same page, same date.
We wonder if this “number” was included in the “recent statistics” studied by the Prince, or will they be the subject of future study—say about two years after the discharged men have starved to death?

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