BRITAIN’S IDLE MULTITUDE.
Enormous Cost In Doles. M.P'S INTERESTING SCHEME. By Cable —Press Association —Copyrfglit. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received siarch 21, •">.5 p.m.) LON DON", March 20. Captain the Rt. Hon. F. E. Guest (Liberal .Member lor Bristol) during a recent debate in tile House of Commons on employment, urged the solution inv with the Empire. He now elaborated the idea of temporary immigration, in the form of an expeditionary labour army, analogous to war time, with a .separation allowance in the case of married men, but preferring single men, who were more likely to .settle down permanently. Unemployment relief had cost, the country £340,000,000 since the armistice, without the slightest return to the nation. A scheme, to ensure larger Empire production of foods, would benefit shipping. In" Britain they were at present trusting to “God and the customers to pull us through.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1926, Page 9
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142BRITAIN’S IDLE MULTITUDE. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1926, Page 9
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