the staffs and finding other work for those who must be
discharged. Dispense altogether with some of the new Ministries. The
question of employment for women after the War will be most urgent.

10. Organise and correlate the various departments so as to secure more
efficiency, and so assign and arrange the work of each as to avoid
circumlocution, friction and waste.

11. Reconstitute the Cabinet on clearer lines, and let competence for
the work of each department, instead of recognition of party services,
be the guide in appointing the Minister responsible for each.

12. Reform the procedure of the House of Commons to check verbosity and
facilitate business.[10] Delegate certain powers and duties.

13. Find means for raising additional revenue and making the incidence
of taxation fairer. In particular, revise the provisions as to income
tax and death duties, so as to increase revenue without adding to the
hardships and burdens due to the present conditions. Some definite steps
with that object are quite practicable.

14. Examine what industries, if any, are to be specially fostered as
"key industries," and whether this can be done without injury to other
industries or adding to the heavy cost borne by the consumer.

15. Arrange plans for enabling labour to co-operate fully in settling
the conditions under which industry is to be carried on, and make
provision for preventing disputes, increasing production, allocating
profits fairly, and for reducing hours of work without diminishing
output.

16. Provide more and better housing, not only to secure the bare
accommodation necessary for health and decency, but also to make
attractive homes.

17. Increase the productivity of the land and promote agriculture, not
only for financial reasons, but to maintain and induce the growth of a
larger rural population. Stimulate education and research bearing on
agriculture.

18. Develop industrial villages, and also land settlements and
co-operative farming. Multiply allotments, both urban and rural, so far
as economic conditions permit and there is a supply of people desirous
and capable of working them.

19. Introduce methods enabling persons without ready capital to acquire
their cottages or small holdings by paying instalments on reasonable
terms. Why not an Ashbourne Act for England?

20. Control the liquor traffic, not with a view to injure the publican,
but to promote temperance, remembering that the business of the