BRITISH UNEMPLOYED
Commons Debate Proposed Regulations (British Official Wireless.) (Received July 23, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, July 22. Opening the second of the three days of debate on the Unemployment Assistance Regulations in the House of Commons, Mr. Neil McLean (Labour, Govan) said that the unemployed were expected to become enthusiastic because 200,000 among them were likely to receive an increase of an average of 6d. weekly. Amid laughter he referred to the payments as a Woolworth increase from a Woolworth Government.
The Secretary for Scotland, Sir Godfrey Collins, said that the Government confidently looked to an unbiased public opinion sympathetically moved toward the needs of the unemployed to approve regulations intended to give even-handed justice to all applicants. Great Britain was treating her unemployed better than any other nation in tlie world.
Mr. Dingle Foot (Liberal, Dundee) criticised the regulations, although he regarded them as an improvement on the 1934 draft. The debate continues.
HOUSE’S LONG SITTING
(Received July 24, 1.15 a.m.)
London, July 23.
The House of Commons is still sitting and is not expected to rise until 11 p.m., after having sat continuously for 32 hours debating the unemployment regulations.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 255, 24 July 1936, Page 11
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