UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1930, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —With reference to Lord Craigavon's speech on the systeni of unemployment insurance which is in force in Ulster. With all due respect to his Lordship, 1 was surprised at his saying it was Ulster's scheme. Every person who is conversant with the methods of uneniployment insurance knows quite well it is the systeni at Home—v. scheme which tlie people this side of the world have freely ridiculed at every possible turn as "the dole."

i have always been .surprised at ths j;<uorance shown this side of the world us to the workings of the so-called "dole.'' Perhaps it is policy here to educate the people with the idea of national insurance, but never mention it as a system of the "dole." As a scheme it is one of the finest ever passed into law, and I am not far w«m;f in saying that its adoption saved the Old Country from "revolution" after the war. No worker objects to paying a few pence a week to help his fellow workers, at the same time insuring himself lor some probable future spell of unemployment himself, and this country sooner or later will have to adopt some such kind of measure, but it will not be called "the dole." If the Press were to publish the contributions of employee, employer, and State, and give the benefits derived from same the public will realise the advantages of the much-slandered word '"the dole."— I am, etc.,

XON-DOLER