THE FAMILY ALLOWANCE.
SO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your footnote to my letter on the above you state that the law was administered according to the Act. If so the position is hard to follow. The definite statement was made that the average wage for the year previous to ■ application for ' allowance qualified or disqualified the applicant.' _ Unless I am. misinformed men are being deprived of the allowance' as soon as they start work. If this is so it is contrary to Labour principles and should ba speedily rectified. You further state that the Labour Government put up the price of bread. Would it not be more correct to say that the Government, under organised pressure, permitted a- rise-in ■ prices? The Labour Government appears to be over-obliging in its anxiety to he fair- to its opponents. It cannot legislate'in the interests of • flour millers ■ and bakers’ combines without dealing a serious blow to the interests of the worker in general and the family man in particular.—l am, etc., G. A. Herring. ' September 15.
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Evening Star, Issue 22444, 15 September 1936, Page 7
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173THE FAMILY ALLOWANCE. Evening Star, Issue 22444, 15 September 1936, Page 7
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