Howard Marshall and Others
Some men, thrown out of work in the last decade through trade upheaval, will probably never get jobs again. The death or rationalisation of local industry leaves older men in particular high and dry. What are they to do? None of them cares to look forward endlessly to an idle life dependent on public money. Yet what is the alternative?
In the Lancashire and South Wales coalfields a group led by Peter Scott is experimenting in a system of co-operative production of the necessities of life-farm produce, clothes, bread, coal, and so forth - which enables the participants to raise their standard of life considerably without throwing others out of work by competitive production.
Is the basis of the scheme sound?
What alternatives are there for men ever to get back to their old jobs? These are some of the questions which will be discussed tonight.