BRITAIN’S IDLE PEOPLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1922, Page 5

BRITAIN’S IDLE PEOPLE.

STRIKE DESTROYS IMPROVEMENT. “DOLES” TO BE CONTINUED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. London, March 29. In the House of Commons Dr. T. J. MacNamara (Minister for Labor), in moving the second reading of the Unemployment Insurance Bill, said that since January 10 the number of totally unemployed had fallen from 1,934,000 to 1,762,000, and the partially unemployed from 303,900 to 236,000. The Minister added, however, that the engineering and shi building dispute threatened ot throw the country back, and he declared that there should be resolute determination to settle the dispute equitably in order to take the fullest advantage of the turn of the commercial tide. The new Bill was necessary to continue unemployment doles of fifteen shillings weekly for a man and twelve shillings for a woman, together with five shillings for a man’s wife and a shilling for each child. The Bill provided fifteen-week benefits, to end in October, in three instalments of five weeks each, with gaps of five weeks between.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ATTEMPT TO ARRANGE PEACE. Received March 30, 7.25 p.m. London, March 30. The negotiating committee is further attempting to arrange peace in the engineering dispute. Mr. Henderson and Mr. Bowerman, the authorised mediators, have reapproached Mr. Allan Smith, the result of which is awaited with most intense interest throughout the country.