POOR LAW REFORM.
' A MINORITY REPORT. ' RECOMMENDATION OF LABOUR MEMBERS. ; EXPENDITURE OF £100,000,000 A YEAR ':'■■ ■■...-...-■■ INVOLVED.. ..■.■::. ;, : ; JBT TSLIQEAPH— ritISS ASSOCIATION— COPTRIOHT.) , London, February 24. ■ .•-, Foiir Labour members of--: the Poor Law Commission, in a minority report that is air tracting the attention of the Radical press, recommend Government subventions to .trades ■unions towards grants to the unemployed;also Government schemes of work extending over a period of ten years, and operating in times of depression. ,:' : : . ' : Lord Balfour "of Burleigh estimates -that the adoption of the report would involve an expenditure, of one hundred million sterling a year against.tho.present twenty million.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 442, 26 February 1909, Page 7
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99POOR LAW REFORM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 442, 26 February 1909, Page 7
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