BRITAIN'S WORKLESS
PROBLEM GROWING MORE DIFFICULT
HALF A MILLION UNEMPLOYED
SBy Tole*r«.ph-Pr«Bi Aesoolation-OoDrrlfhi
(Rec. December 16, 8.35 p.m.)
London, December 16.., The problem of unemployment ib growing increasingly difficult.' There are 240,189 cx-servico men out of work, • and the total number of men, women, and boys out of employment is over half a million.
The executive of tho Labour Party has decided that the present scandal of starving innocent people cannot be allowed to continue. A person for whom no work is available is entitled to a maintenance allowance of at least 10s. per week for men and 255. for women, with mi additional allowance for dependants, until bettor provision for unemployment is made. A scheme should bo directly provided by the Government.—Aus.-N.Z. Coble Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 71, 17 December 1920, Page 7
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125BRITAIN'S WORKLESS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 71, 17 December 1920, Page 7
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