Memorandum on the Beveridge Report
1943-02 1943 1940s 28 pages FOREWORD "Winning the war must come first in all our thoughts and labours" SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE February 26th, 1943 THE COMMUNIST PARTY memorandum on the Beveridge Report was prepared by a Commission which exhaustively analysed that document before th...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party of Great Britain
February 1943
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/DEEC4B4C-F9BC-4C30-8866-75491E5985A5 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/443E8005-9619-4196-8FE9-CA26C32A15CE |
| Summary: | 1943-02
1943
1940s
28 pages
FOREWORD "Winning the war must come first in all our thoughts and labours" SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE February 26th, 1943 THE COMMUNIST PARTY memorandum on the Beveridge Report was prepared by a Commission which exhaustively analysed that document before the Government announced its intention drastically to whittle down the main proposals put forward by Beveridge. The analysis of the Beveridge Report which we have made will show beyond the slightest doubt that, so far from the Report pampering the working class, in spite of its progressive features it falls short in several important respects from its own aim in securing "freedom from want" in the narrow physical sense of the term. We print an appendix showing how far the Government has modified the original Beveridge proposals. The most serious modification is the Government's rejection of a scale of subsistence expenditure on which to base unemployment and sickness benefit and old age pensions. In doing so they have undermined the whole basis of the Report. 3
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