p.

9.

might like to buy them cannot afford to do so
because their wages are depressed in order that
still other people can make profits. And so
that is their past & their present - but God forbit
their future. Searching along on 3 or 5 days a
week - so unable to buy all those things of
which the world is full to overflowing, because
they are controlled by these few people who
control price & output & distribution to grow fat
themselves. What a God damned insufferable not to
be tolerated system. And are you & I going to
settle down for the remainder of our lives, to see
how much commission I can make? Pygmalion
- & not bloody likely.

But what a difference surely, if the workpeople have security
of income & a better in come - & the manager's main
concern is managing & not making profits - & if every
girl & boy receives an equal education & a good education.
Then managers will cease to be immersed in profit
making, & men & women will cease to be entirely
preoccupied with how to pay the rent - & everybody
will relax & be freed from the everlasting strain - & people
will begin to breathe & look around & become aware of
beauty, & art will become a matter for everybody & not
for just a select few in London. The provinces have their
art galleries, I know, but the main reason behind them
is "civic pride" & nothing much more. In Manchester
& Bradford, I am sure it is. That one we saw
in Wakefield seemed to be more sincere.