UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT

A LABOUR REMEDY,

DEVELOPMENT OF LAND

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE EMPIRE,

(UNHID PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIOBT.) (KEUTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Received 23rd May, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd May, Unemployment was again aiscussed in the House of Commons. Mr. G. H. Oliver (Labour) moved the second reading of a Labour Party Bill, entitled the Prevention of Unemployment Bill, providing for the establishment of a national employment and development board, with a State grant of £10,000,000 a year. The proposed board consists of Ministers cf the Crown, and is to bo empowered to make advances to Dominion or colonial Governments and local and public authorities, to be spent anywhere in the Empiro on purposes calculated to provide unemployment.

Mr. Oliver said that great areas of land now idle in Britain could be used to produce much of the meat, butter, and sugar now imported. British craftsmen were going to America, although there was ample opportunity for them in the colonies if the colonies developed as the report of the East African Commission showed they could be developed.

Mr. Lloyd George declared that nothing could be done under the Bill which the Cabinet was unable to do without it.