EVILS OF DOLE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 9

EVILS OF DOLE

Remarkable Evidence in London

WORKERS LEAVE JOBS

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright

London, January 25.

Extraordinary evidence of the exploitation. of the dole continues to be a feature of the proceedings of the Royal Commission investigating relief administration. Among the cases described at the latest sitting are the following: A youth dropped his apprenticeship to a salesman for 10/- a week and got 14/- on the dole. Thousands of women refuse domestic service at from 8/- to 10/- a week because the dole offered 15/-. The manager of the Newcastle Labour Exchange said that he could not fill 50 per cent, of the vacancies for servants. He added that his own personal experience of the effect of the dole showed, that it led to the demoralisation of the recipients and street gambling among the men and youths, while drunkenness was more apparent on relief pay days. Other witnesses enumerated scores of similar instances of refusal to work.