ABSTRACT
The founding of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1893 came when some socialist leaders decided that to develop a socialist society, they had to have an organized political party directly attached to labour. Employment has been fairly easy to obtain, and the number of unemployed has been comparatively low. The winter of 1902 will long be remembered as a famine winter. Probably there will be over a million able-bodied workers unable to find employment. Without troubling about the rich, let the reader confine attention for the moment to the problem of the poor unemployed. The tens of thousands of men who have been brought up as agricultural labourers, and who are now clamouring for employment in the towns, must be drafted back on to the land, to work on the farms, and to produce food-stuffs. Landlordism blocks the way. Nothing can be done until the people destroy the power of the landlord in Parliament and on the local bodies.
