Show WORKERS PROPOSE I NOVEL EXPERIMENT r From Manchester England comes a a. a I new proposal for solving the acute i housing l shortage t there Manchester I e i n needs 20 n O nn workers workers' ork rs rs' rs homes a at once g a and n within short a 8 time Private enterprise enterprise en- en there as lure here has tailed failed to K nw provide the houses The Bricklayers Bricklayers' ers union of Manchester has nas s secured cured the cooperation of all the theo other unions ns engaged in house building council and o iha has that proposed P to the Manchester the workers be gt given en the contract to build 2000 houses as an e experiment ex- ex They believe that working under their own leaders responsible legally le legally le- le gally and financially for tor the output and with the team work engendered by the knowledge that the whole return on the project will wilt go to the workers and n not j to any ny contractor they can do more and better work than any private contractor con con- tractor The Manchester council has accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac the offer and a awaits walts formal approval ap- ap Pr va I from the British government ers era It If f in the the experiment succeeds the workers work work- building trades Industries propose propose pro pro- pose to expand their committee into a a. national guild which shall build houses all over England It is an experiment nt in guild socialism that socialism that Is worth watching |