THE UNEMPLOYED.
By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.5 p.m., April 19.
London, April 19In the House of Commons Mr Gerald Balfour introduced ■ the Unemployed Workmen’s Bill, to establish local bodies in London for the purpose of discriminating among applicants, also a central body alone empowered to provide employment exclusively on a farm colony and establish labor exchanges, the entire cost to be provided by subscription and an equalised rate of a halfpenny in the pound. Organisation in the provinces is not compulsory. Sir T. Buxton declared that if compulsory elsewhere, the last stat'b of London would be worse than the first. ?
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1435, 20 April 1905, Page 3
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