MORE UNEMPLOYMENT
THE POSITION IN BRITAIN
MINISTER DEPRECATES ALARM.
LABOUR PARTY CENSURE MOTION
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 9. In the House of Commons the Minister for Labour. Mr Ernest Brown, said the increase in unemployed was regretted in all parts of the House, but it would be a mistake to exaggerate its signaficance. The increase last month was due in a large part to the fact that the increase in unemployment which normally follows the cessation of Christmas activities was accentuated this year by bad weather on the day of the count. He also made the point that long-term unemployment was steadily on the decrease. Mr Brown said the. Labour Party’s censure motion would be debated on Thursday next.
The motion deplores the fact that there are more than 2,000.000 unemployed, views with concern the evidence of widespread malnutrition and expresses the opinion that an immediate improvement in the standard of maintenance is urgently necessary. It regrets the Government’s continued failure either to produce plans for the provision of work and wages under the present system or to initiate a policy which recognises that the problem can be solved only by the application of Socialist principles.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 5
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