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“Landlordism Causes Unemployment”, showing an octopus strangling London (1909)

"Landlordism Causes Unemployment", showing an octopus strangling London (1909)

Landlordism Causes Unemployment
It paralyses the building trade;
It Pauperises the Peasantry;
12 Landlords “own” (?) London, taking £20,000,000 a year;
500 Peers “own” (?) an entire one-third of England;
4,000 Landlords “own” (?) an entire half of England;
The Land Octopus Sucks the Lifeblood of the People.

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