SECOND READING

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 11

SECOND READING

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL LONDON, 25th November. Resuming the'debate in the House of Uimmons on the second reading of the Lnemployment Insurance Bill, I/-. J. Devlin, in his first speech in the present Parliament,, said that for the first time in his life he sympathised with | the Government. As Parliament had admitted the principle of an unemployed allowance, tho only question was whether it was adequate. The Government was dealing with the relief side of unemployment very modestly. A real National Council, representing all sides, might do a good deal towards a solution of the problem of finding work. Mr. T. Shaw (Secretary of War) winding up the debate, said that nobody regarded the Bill as ideal. The Government believed it represented as m, Uch a, S, Jt CoUla get from Parliament, fnt ii 7 al Only a sfc°P-gap. and not intended to bo permanent. • The Conservative amendment was defeated by 299 votes to 213, and the Bill was read a second time. Fortyment VOted With the Govern"

lho members of the Labour Left thl b-iT» T' 6 most clissatisfied with tho Bill's rates of benefits, supported tne Government against the amend ment,_but state that if there had been a division on the motion that the Bill be read a second time they would have abstained from voting as a protest

Major Elliot moved a Conservative amendment rejecting the Bill on he grounds that an unfair burden was cast on juvenile insureds, the vasrue and unsatisfactory nature of the tests