THE DOLE CUT
OTHERS TO FOLLOW.
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, August 27
It is understood tlmt the 10 per cent cut unemployment benefit, although the only proposal so far officially announced, is not the only serious economy cut which the Government will make. The late Cabinet split on this but previously had reached an agree, ment on the other proposals, which will effect a drastic saving.
Both the Prime Minister, in his letter to the Labour members of Parliament, and the Secretary of the Colonies (Mr J. H. Thomas) in his message to the Railwaymen, vigorously defended . tlie unemployment cut. They point out that when the cost of living is taken into account, unemployment benefits remain one and a-half per cent, better than two years ago, and that in any case tlie alternative to immediate action for restoring credit would have meant a drop in the benefit, more likely to reach 50 per cent, than 10 per cent. Poor people would have been the first to suffer from such a. catastrophe, which had been averted.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1931, Page 5
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