All that is needed is to establish a trustworthy and disinterested centre round which the unemployed can group themselves,and which will form the nucleus of a great Co-operative Self-helping Association.The advantages of such a Bureau are obvious.But in this,also,I do _disibledevent=
SECTION 4.--THE HOUSEHOLD SALVAGE BRIGADE.
It is obvious that the moment you begin to find work for the unemployed labour of the community,no matter what you do by way of the registration and bringing together of those who want work and those who want workers,there will still remain a vast residuum of unemployed,and it will be the duty of those who undertake to deal with the question to devise means for securing them employment.Many things are possible when there is a directing intelligence at headquarters and discipline in the rank and file,which would be utterly impossible when everyone is left to go where he pleases,when ten men are running for one man's job,and when no one can be depended upon to be in the way at the time he is wanted.When my Scheme is carried out,there will be in every populous centre a Captain of Industry,an Officer specially charged with the regimentation of unorganised labour,who would be continually on the alert,thinking how best to utilise the waste human material in his district.It is contrary to all previous experience to suppose that the addition of so much trained intelligence will not operate beneficially in securing the disposal of a commodity which is at present a drug in the market.
Robertson,of Brighton,used frequently to remark that every truth was built up of two apparent contradictory propositions.In the same way Imay say that the solution of every social difficulty is to be found in the discovery of two corresponding difficulties.It is like the puzzle maps of children.When you are putting one together,you suddenly come upon some awkward piece that will not fit in anywhere,but you do not in disgust and despair break your piece into fragments or throw it away.On the contrary,you keep it by you,knowing that before long you will discover a number of other pieces which it will be impossible to fit in until you fix your unmanageable,unshapely piece in the centre.Now,in the work of piecing together the fragments which lie scattered around the base of our social system we must not despair because we have in the unorganised,untrained labourers that which seems hopelessly out of fit with everything around.There must be something corresponding to it which is equally useless until he can be brought to bear upon it.In other words,having got one difficulty in the case of the Out-of-Works,we must cast about to find another difficulty to pair off against it,and then out of two difficulties will arise the solution of the problem.