UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.
One of the main features at yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Council, f was the speech of the Hon. J. Barr on unemployment insurance. He aruged that our present system of dealing with unemployment was quite wrong, for th» really deserving men did not come forward and accept the charity offered.' Britain had experimented successfully, and had now on its Statute Book an tin-' employment Insurance Act, which was meeting the position. The unemployed should not be put on relief works at trade union wages, but should receive, from an insurance fund a weekly sum to keep the wolf from the door, while they looked around for more work. , An unemployment insurance Bill should be' introduced, not ten years hence, but nbw" —immediately. ''.'"■""'■.:
The Leader of the Council (Sir William Fraser) said the speech required the most careful consideration. Personally, he was in sympathy with much of what had been said and, in any case, he would refer the point to thr Government,
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 12, 14 July 1922, Page 7
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