disappearance is a matter of expense and rates, for removal is costly. Local authorities are performing wonders in keeping, so far as they can, old buildings fit for human habitation, but there is a limit to the process of patching up ancient and dilapidated houses. Fear of Unemployment Another active cause of industrial discontent is insecurity of employment. If this week a man is in work and has no certainty of work next week—a condition even in normal times of large numbers of the industrial population—he is persistently oppressed by a desolating fear. Want of work is the menacing spectre which haunts the background of every working-class home. Intermittent employment produces serious decay of human fibres and moral degeneration—an inevitable result of the discouragement caused by fruitless seeking after work, and of the shifts to find food for wife and family. The inability to organize any uniform routine of living leads straight away to improvidence: when a man is in work one week, he spends all he has, relying on continuance of the work; next week, if unemployed, he has nothing except perhaps some unemployment pay or benefits. It is systematically rubbed into him by exponents of Socialism that unemployment is solely caused by the capitalistic organization of industry, that there can be none under the Socialists’ regime, as if any socialistic scheme for the reorganization of industry is going to compel the consumer to buy more commodities and services than he would be prepared, or able, to buy under capitalistic production. Dissatisfaction with Status in Industry