INSTANCES IN BRITAIN
EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY
REFUSAL OF WORK
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 2Gth January, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, 25th .January. Extraordinary evidence of the exploitation of the dole continues to "be a feature of the proceedings of the Eoyal Commission investigating relief administration. Among the cases desscribed at the> latest sitting are the following:—A youth dropped his apprenticeship to a salesman for 10s a week and got 14s on the dole. Thousands of women refuse domestic service at from 8s to 10s a week because the dole offered 15s. The manager of the Newcastle Labour Exchange said that; he could not fill 50 per cent, of the vacancies for servants. Ho 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.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 9
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162INSTANCES IN BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 9
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