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... arranged for the very poorest people in the country in 1933, the inmates of those London institutions formerly known as workhouses. This is what those poor unfortunates had to put up with in the bad old days of Conservative Government: A total weekly ...
... a says it then it becomes a wisecrack. The Conservative Party has no: inherited the Bumble mind and does not visualise a workhouse state, full of well-led but well-managed paupers. This is the Sociaist concept and the planners' paradise. The Idea propagated ...
... Services Society. They advised me to call and see the National Assistance Officer. Yes, we can find you accommo d a t i o n the workhouse. He also said that we would be kept employed until noon. What earthly chance would I have had of looking for work and shelter ...
... men singing In the streets. four abreast.' for pennies. When people were too old to help themselves they were put In the workhouse. When they died. the coffin was put on a truck and two men wheeled it through the streets to the cemetery. There was a rhyme: ...
... of getting your private copy w h e n regularly. in a leading article the official dietary arranged for inmates of London workhouses in 1938, which showed that even the poorest of the population were properly fed. Mr. Priestley attempted also to refute ...
... little council house. There is nu room for luxury but, compared with the prospect of the big gates or the prosp ect as the workhouse was variously known, life is more than tolerable. •There the inmates had to do their chores. woodchop. ping. stone -breaking ...
... hours to draw o few a week? YOUTH • we were sick we had to before a Board of smugTN less than five:' Yeans, .. es at the Workhouse and JI, the Labour Party has were agked questions like: done more for Britain than Can your wife. go into ser- the Tories ...
... the first round of the Middlesex County challenge cup. A mild form of influenza prevailed among the 265 inmates of Windsor Workhouse. Mr. John King, secretary of Court 2006. A.0.F.. was presented with a handsome timepiece on his 25th wedding aniversary. ...
... a month to receive three weeks' Salary. I've got a job. a comfortable home, money in the bank. Best of all, fear of the Workhouse in old age has gone and a new feeling of security has come to me. as it has to all except those who never knew insecurity ...
... history Fulham and read of invasion of England be Danes and of their settiern In Fu t ham. Apparent said Mr Stoneman we hal workhouse master nar Atlee In the very early d and the records state that was ordered to quit because orders he had not comni with ...
... and read of the Invasion of England by the Danes and of their settlement in Fulham. Apparently. said Mr Stoneman we a workhouse master named Atlee in the very early days and the records state that he was ordered to quit because of orders he had not ...
... offer. Is it Conservative Party not only repre- reasonably decent, or is it a prisonsents the rich capitalists, but the cum-workhouse standard? It may thrifty working classes. The old be tho notorious Means Test all ories with their one•s i d e d over again ...