LABOUR EXCHANGES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9545, 17 July 1909, Page 7

LABOUR EXCHANGES.

In the "Financial Review of Reviews," Sir Charles McLaren and Ma Harold Cox each have something to say on Mr Winston Churchill's Labour Exchanges Bill, which is now before the British Parliament. The ?'•:>i*:i-•»i' gentleman, one of the l/.iyest t-rripjoye'es of Labour in the United K points out that Mr Churchill de.-ires eventually to make use of ihe machinery created by the Labour Exchange Bill foriestablishing arid conducting the system of State-aidfed insurance against unemployment, of which he has outlined the-details. It must not, however, be supposed that these legislative proposals originated with the present Cabinet, for not only are they to be in both the majority and the minority reports ot the Poor Law Commission, but they were foreshadowed by Mr Nathaniel Cohen, neary twenty years ago, in the columns of the "Times," and their practical effect has been seen in those i countries, such as Germany, Austria, ] France and Belgium, where labour exchanges have been at work for some years." Mr Harold Cox, as was to be exacted, is enthusiastic, declaring that: "Of all the projects put forward by the present Government, there is none which seems so likely to, add to the real progress of j the country as the proposal to establish a general system of labour exchanges. »For the establishment of exchanges will not only be a good thing in itself, but it will render possible and prepare the way for other developments of equal or even greater importance. Labour exchanges are essential to the successful working of any general scheme of compulsory insurance against unemployment. They will also be of immense service to Poor Law authorities in dealing with the cases of men who are destitute, though willing to work."