Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/remedyforunemplo00walliala Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Pass on Pamphlets. No. 8. 1d. THE REMEDY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT ALFRED R. WALLACE The Clarion Press, 44, Worship Street, London, E.C. * * * * * * THE CLARION. Edited by ... ROBERT BLATCHFORD. _EVERY FRIDAY._ - - _ONE PENNY._ If you want to keep to understand the Socialism which is creating such a ferment in the country, you must read the CLARION. Order it from your newsagent, or send for a free specimen copy. 5 Clarion Pamphlets. No. 44--FROM BRUTE TO BROTHER. By DENNIS HIRD, M.A. No. 46--JESUS THE SOCIALIST. By DENNIS HIRD, M.A. No. 47.--SEVENTEEN SHOTS AT SOCIALISM. By R. B. SUTHERS. This is an answer in brief to Seventeen Common Objections to Socialism. No. 48.--THE CASE FOR SOCIALISM. By F. HENDERSON. Deals with the Compensation and Confiscation question. No. 49.--THE PERIL OF POVERTY. By Councillor McLACHLAN. _ONE PENNY EACH_ - - _By Post, 1½d._ THE CLARION PRESS, 44, Worship Street, London, E.C. * * * * * * THE REMEDY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. BY DR. ALFRED R. WALLACE. The reason why I wrote the present pamphlet (which first appeared in the “Socialist Review,” and is now reprinted in a slightly modified form) was that, although there is a small body of avowed Socialists in Parliament, not one of them has, so far as I am aware, upheld any of the fundamental principles of Socialism as a means of dealing with the greatest of present-day problems--that of chronic unemployment and starvation all over our land. Let me illustrate what I mean by a few examples. Perhaps the most fundamental and universally admitted axiom of Socialism is that all production should be, primarily, _for use and not for profit_; and the next in importance is that the true or proper _wages of labour_ is _the whole product of that labour_. But neither in Parliament nor out of it has a single voice been raised to show that these principles _must_ be adopted in any permanent solution of the problem, or to explain how they _can_ be applied far more easily and economically than any of the suggested alleviations. All the talk has hitherto been of securing trade union rates of wages for out-of-works of every kind; and the underlying idea has always been that of the non-Socialist worker--that the Government provision of work must _not_ be looked upon as permanent, but only as enabling the worker to live till the capitalist employer again requires him.