DOLE IN BRITAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1932, Page 4

DOLE IN BRITAIN

AVERTS SERIOUfS POSSIBILITY,

FIGURES SHOW IMPROVEMENT.

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* N LONDON, November -5. In the Commons, the Opposition Leader, Mr G. Lansbury, ..•uoved a resolution affirming that' ..the’: Horse viovs with ■concern- the” Volume of unemployment apd will welcome proper measures in dealing therewith. In, Support, Mb i/aDshuryi asserted."thatn.'rtfie dole -had averteda, bloody revolution in Britain. : -r\ f j> ’ 1 "

In reply, Sir H> Btttcr.ton said that seventeen curatives . had-tbeen-,tried.' At; most they only touched . ther.fringe of the problem. Migration, formerly 100,000 yearly,'had turnedr<in the reverse direction, owing tp 4h e , -4 <? P l ' l ? 6 ®*9 n ” :111 the Dominions. Hebhoped :; the decision ; f at Ottawa- would, [lead., to renewed pros- , ' • perity i-n, th© PomiflipOis-dHe was glad • • to say that employn\ept : was practically h* stationary during the .last year.; The Minister of ;-Labour- said thatvhe beheved that it had ben proved that efforts of the State, to stem th© abnormal unemployment by tfie , .-. of public works failed* and -also-what-ever usefulness they might; have had, - have now been exhausted. ■ Ip. theycai* preceding September, . 1931, -h©. ; the number of,;persons -in employment .... ; had decreased. by v , on© million,. , La»t year, however, the, number in , *mploy« . ment remained practically stationary.: There waa .no falling back, -and.;.. it was only in a minority of the industries that the position had deteriorated. The new unemployment. figUrev, to, be \ / published on Monday, w<?uld show an . improvement. As ou© third of.the upemployed were engaged - in,.,.industries that mainly Were.'-affected.,, by -world conditions,.. i t was ,a . .matter .of real ; satisfaction to th«, Government .that the ■ position had been, ..largely, maintained . while conditions abroad had so seriously deteriorated. .a*;.-'.; ■•-

UNEMPLOYED GO HOME.

LONDON, November 4.

All the unemployed ’ WPTfihgrs. except inval'-ds and those arrested, are entraining for horn© to-morrow. Their fares .will be paid out ©{. collections:. . The railways h<ye. arranged, special low x-ates. i >