LEFT WING DISSATISFIED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 823, 18 November 1929, Page 9

LEFT WING DISSATISFIED

LABOUR AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SNOWDEN RESISTS DEMANDS RUGBY, Saturday. The Government’s Unemployment Insurance Bill, the text of which was read yesterday, provides for an in- ! crease in the allowances to wives of j unemployed men from 7s to Ds a i week and also an increase in the | allowances to unemployed men and 1 women under the age of 21. At present unemployment pay is I made to boys and girls from the age of Hi. The Bill proposes to make the J allowance to boys and girls at Hie i age of 15, this provision to take effect as soon us the age of leaving school ! is raised from 14 to 15, which the i Government proposes to do in 1951. Boys of 15 w ho are unemployed would then receive an allowance of (is a week and girls would be granted ss. It' the Bill comes into full operation the total charge on the Treasury for unemployment insurance will be £24,500,000. The new proposals iuvolve an increase of £12,500,000 over tile present expenditure. The members of the left wing of the Labour Party express dissatisfaction with the Bill. They wish to increase the allowances, notably for men with families. The acceptance j of the full scale they propose would ‘ cost the Treasury an additional ' £11.500.000. Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has resisted these demands on the ground that the money is not available.