A Master Puzzle

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 11

A Master Puzzle

FIGHT WITH UNEMPLOYMENT Britain’s Palliatives STATE ASKS MORE BORROWING POWER COMPENSATION for loss of employment through an 1 employer’s action is proposed by a Bill introduced into the British House of Commons, covering mainly professional and non-manual workers. When the measure giving the Government power to borrow up to £60,000,000 for unemployment relief was debated, it was revealed that Britain had already spent £500,000,000 on efforts to solve the problem.

United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. In the House of Commons today, Mr. G. Latham, Labour member for Park, Sheffield, introduced a Bill to provide for the payment of compensation for loss of employment. Tho mover said the measure would apply to non-manual workers, such as clerks and professional and semi-pro-fessional workers who were deprived of employment on account of some act of their employers. The Bill would cover journalists. 600 of whom were affected by the recent combination of the “Daily Chronicle’* and “Daily News.** The compensation proposed consisted of one-twelfth of the remunera-

tion of those concerned for each completed year of service. The measure was read a first time. ’ In the course of the debate on the motion for a ’second reading of the Bill to raise the borrowing powers of the Government under the unemployment insurance scheme to i £60,000,000, Miss Margaret BondfieUl, Minister of Labour, said she estimated that 173,000 persons were added to those entitled to benefits as a result of recent legislation. Mr. H. Graham White, Liberal member for Birkenhead East, said the country already had spent £500,000,000 on unemployment. At this stage the closure was carried and the Bill was read a second time by 273 votes to 101.