UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19818, 4 January 1930, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN.

GOVERNMENT'S NEW BIJ £!2,000,000 WORK FOE TUB l>OUt (rnoM ovr own conftMrovnftpT > 1 LONDON, NWm.I.M 21 llmler the (lorerriment's i mcsnt, 111 -m ance Hill, 1 lio li xt "i whWk | has been issued, tho Ilnti-h will have to find an ml UMimi . 112,0(M).(100 a year for lbYouths of 18 are to be p»i<l 11- a w*#il instead of lf*«, and girl* of Hv WW* age are to WKviv# 1w iii"»ti*» i »' while children of l.'» nr<> to . • I .» * ! week. . In tho meantime the I iieiniumnw . Insurance Fund i# bankrupt Tw st i»l lltni V lxirruwuin pow e| 01 I In- IUOT is limited to £ 10,(XX>,<K>» ' ,l '* ' now l'3(},Sstl,(MM) in debt - Between the Armistice 11th, 191 ft) and the end <■ lW £36(Mf!0,000 wm spent in liiwrWW' mcnt benefit. £HS,44H.O<X> m work donations (ox-Servn < tncn «Wi civilians), and £'7i!,iSJii,o(H> in J"*. Law relief n total of f HtfvtilHVuW) An the result of *h<> prop>»«»H »WN* donment of tho "jiriiiMin'U work' 1 safeguard, t** l ,f ' has to be added. Tlic onus of proving th.d »or» genuinely being sought U t<» ,M ' l,w * fererd from (lie claimant to 1 ll '' n*""'' S tune oftuml-. There is »<> [»' 11 J pa vnicnt of Iwnefit even in 1-4 j raws where doubt h«s arum on w* 1 validity of fho claim'' Th-* "I'l i.s no longer to called ii l,l l>» i a reasonable period of «mk i the |msl two years and th«- : "" il ! r * u , officer's power of divilbtw me el#ittw i to he severely lmiitc.l Travelling' Expoiw* Other provision* include (!t * mcnt of travelling expense* «>f f ant« in search of employment, »w )■* < ment of benefit to insured ** , no <j> work abroad ami tin? ' 1 "' ,l . of the a«e «P whirli grunt . made for courses of instiii' I '' | boys umi Kir!* from I* to •"> ninn at 1> instead "! HI, a* 1" -j sent . „ -| There i every indicat ion » inn political storm over the Mil.. \ Opposition will cluillenne tfn ,M T 'C j visions with urent vigojn, " f , . llninsH.v MneDonnld'n_ 1 * ; trade iinioiiists and tack tin-in as inadequately '**< | the pioiiiim-.h inaile at th» } Klection. , „ 5 "Work or innintennin'e cry, and the Sim talisl c>> " ' J ,|* jL j apparenfly not < i ontent to w fnrt.her ipHiitniiee s. heme o» *''J C (M-vernmi'lit i-. net urh