BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3195, 21 May 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE BUDGET, TWO SUBSTANTIAL GAINS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received May 20, 9 a.m. LONDON, May 19. Mr Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, estimates that the newestate duties will, after 1910, yield £7,425,000, and the additional income tax £6,720 000, of which £2,250,000 will be raisod through the super-tax. The income tax abatement of £W per child will amount to £640,000., TOBACCO INDUSTRY DISLOCATED. Received May 20, 8.10 sum. LONDON, May 19. The Marsuma Company, of Congleton, Cheshire, has discharged 650) cigar-makers, owing to the Budget disorganising and dislocating their industry.

DEATH DUTIES RESOLUTION SEVERELY CRITICISED. Received May 20, 11.55 p.m, LONDON, May 20. The debate on the Budget proposals was resumed in the House of Commons. The Death Duties resolution was severely criticised on the ground that it was taking money from ttse capital required to promote industry and agriculture. Sir W. S. Robson, AttoraesGeneral, declared that the proper time for lamentation would ba when the expenditure was proposed, not when the taxes were voted.

MEAT MARKING BILL WITHDRAWN. Received May 20, 11.55 p.m. 7 LONDON, May 20. In the House of Lords, Lord Clifford withdrew his foreign and colonial meat marking bill. Lord Carrington opposed it on the ground that it was undesirable and impracticable. ! UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLANa BILL DEALING WITH THE QUESTION. INTRODUCED INTO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Keceived May 21, 12.5 a.m. LONDON, May 20. In the House of Commons, Mr Winston Churchill explained the Bill which he introduced to-day, to estaL—lish early next year labour exchanges. The cost will be £200,000 per annum at the outset, and £170,000 psr annum thereafter. Tne country would be divided into d visions, each with a clearing house. London supplying the national clearing house. Ho proposed to establish between thirty and forty first-class exchanges in towns of a thousand inhabitants and upwards; 45 in second-class towns of between 50,000 and 100,000, and a number pf sub-offices in smaller toWngi Advisory Committees would bS SJipQiniied in the chief centres wherein workmen and employers will meet in equal numbers, with impartial permanent officials and a chairman.

Mr Churchill next explained that the Act would become operative in 1911 for selected trades representing 21 million adults, covering the worst half of the field of unemployment. Slightly under sixpence per week per man would be raised by contributions from workmen, employers, and the State. The men going to the exchanges would be given a job or receive benefit pay. Mr F. E. Smith approved of the Bill, and Mr A. Henderson (Labour M.P. for Barnard Castle), warmly thanked Mr Churchill, and remarked that the Labour party's Right to Work Bill would be carried by instalments.