UNEMPLOYMENT EVIL
MACDONALD TAKES A HAND
GOVERNMENT ALARMED
United Press Association—By Electric T«l«----craph—CopyriehL LONDON, 2nd December. The "Daily Chronicle" says that a party of economists and leaders of industry will lunch with Mr. Mac Donald at Downing Street to-day and will discuss palliatives for unemployment. There is growing anxiety, even alarm, on the part of the Government at the ever-mounting unemployment figures and the apparent failure of Mr. Thomas's policy. Some Ministers desire that outside help be called in, and Mr. Thomas already has been in consultation with industrialists. Mr. Mac Donald now is taking a hand, and apparently has in mind the establishment of an advisory committee of industry, similar to the Cabinet Committee of Civil Eesearch which Mr. Baldwin set up. Since 17th June unemployment has risen from 1,122,713 to 1,273,500, and is likely to be over 1,300,00 by January if things drift much longer. The Government finds that public opinion is difficult to control.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 11
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157UNEMPLOYMENT EVIL Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 11
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