UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1926, Page 9

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

INCREASE DUE TO COAL STRIKE.

By Telegraph—Press inn.—Copyright.

Received Nov. 17, 7.5 p.m. London, Nov. 18.

Sir H. Kingsley Wood, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, introduced a Supplementary Estimate of £3,250,000 for the relief of unemployment, making a total expenditure of £5,471,000 wholly due to the coal strike. The increase in receipts since May 1 was £1,102,000, Miss Susan Lawrence moved the reduction of the vote to call attention to the policy of expecting repayment of loans to speakers when the money was needed to feed the country’s future citizens. Miss Wilkinson drew a pathetic picture of men and women who got into debt during unemployment and were never ablo to recover.

Miss Margaret Bondfield urged the desirableness of so training youths that theif labour would be more fluid and adaptable. Training centres for the young weM badly needed. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Minister o! Health, replying to the debate, said that it was not unfair to say that the strike hail been financed by Boards of Guardian*, but he could not agree that it was the duty of the Government to maintain anybody who had a dispute with his employers. Owing to the fact that a large part of the relief had been given in kind, and that children had been fed in the schools, the children had been better fed than when their fathers were working. The vote was carried by 215 votes to 81 and the House adjourned.