GETTING BACK TO NORMAL
STEADY DECLINE IN BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT THE WAR GRATUITY (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright „ . . . ~ London, December 8. llio total cost of pensions during the current 'financial' year is 899,000. Unemployment lifts steadily declined for many woelcs. Ninety per cent, of the demobilised men have been absolved, and the only increases are duo to the ironmoulders' strike. Thfrc is a marked improvement in. London, Birmingham, nnd Glasgow. ' Hr. Lloyd George, replying to the Discharged Soldiers' Federation, points out that the : Treasury' has definitely decided that the gratuities cannot ho increased. The Government had done everything possible to assist the demobilised men to obtain employment,. end the present position' cannot be regarded as unsatisfactory. ■ Out of 4-} millions demobilised, 335,000 are "receiving the unemployment donation.—Ausi.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 66, 11 December 1919, Page 7
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126GETTING BACK TO NORMAL Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 66, 11 December 1919, Page 7
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