LABOUR WORLD

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17293, 3 November 1921, Page 7

LABOUR WORLD

UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN. LEVY BELL PASSED. (By Cable—Pret» Association—Copyright.) (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received November 2nd, 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 2. The House of Commons read the Unemployment Levy Bill a third time. (Received November 2nd, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, November 1. There was a lively debate in the House of Commons on the Labour Party's proposal to raise the grant to unemployed women from os to 10s a week, at a cost, of £6,000,000. Dr. T. J. McNamara, Minister of Labour, said the Government was unable to find the money. Mr Will Thome (Labour, West Ham) interjected: "In the name of common sense, what is 6ix millions in these days?" Dr. McNamara also refused to raise the grant to children to 2s a week, but he was prepared to remove the limit regarding the number of children who would receive Is a week, and also to raise the age limit in order to include all school children. Mr Thorne urged the House to reject the amendment. Increased taxation would only aggravate unemployment. There was still a floating debt of £1,400,000,000. The amendment was rejected by 145 votes to 112. (Labour cheers and cries of "Resign.") BRITISH MINERS' WAGES. A GRAVE SITUATION. (Received November 2nd, 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 2. The gravest conditions prevail in the majority of the colliery districts. The reductions in wages and unemployment are so severe that the executive of the Miners' Federation is to-day reconsidering the entire situation. In South Wales and Scotland, weekly earning? of twenty to thirty shillings are becoming the general average. In other districts the miners' earnings are so small that they are being augmented by official doles. FRENCH TEXTILE STRIKE OVER. (Received November 2nd, 7.20 p.m.) PARIS, November 1. The textile -workers' strike in the Lille, Roubaix, and Turcoing districts has practically ended. The'leaders are ordering a resumption of work owing to the number of strikers who lhave been returning to work during the past week. WEST VIRGINIA MINERS. A DRASTIC JUDGMENT. (Received November 3rd, 12.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 2. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Time®" says: Federal J.ud'ge Anderson issued an injunction in connexion with the reoent West Virginia mine troubles, forbidding l union organisers to enter the State for the purpose of soliciting membership of- unions, and forbidding the existing unions to continue the practice of having the mine companies deduct tuiion dues from men's wages. Mr Samuel Gompera, president of the American Federation of LaJbour, denounced Judge Anderson, saying the injunction violated the cctetitution and existing laws. UNEMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA. MB HUGHES'S SCHEME. (Received November 2nd, 10.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, November 2. At the Pemiers' Conference Mr Hughes explained a scheme for solving tho problem of unemployment by developing land settlement, and ameliorating unemployment in Great Britain by encouraging immigration. The scheme provides for unification of the gauges of Australian railways, and tho opening up of a large number of farms. It is proposed that Austrar lian unemployed slhall be first absorbed, and thereafter as many immigrants as work can be found for will be brought to Australia. A condition of the scheme is that a portion of the farms will be reserved for British immigrants after they have become acclimatised and aocustomed to local conditions. Mr Hughes said he believed he could borrow £50,000,000 to finance tho proposal. The Conference is <Rscus6ing the matter.