LESS EMPLOYMENT
POSITION IN BRITAIN
(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 23, noon.)
RUGBY, December 22. Mr. J. «T. Lawson (Labour) raised in' the House of Commons the question of unemployment and stressed the sapping of the moral fibre and the destruction of self-respect by long periods of involuntary idleness suffered in areas where unemployment is most severe.
Replying for the Government, the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, denied any lack of sensitiveness on the part of Ministers to the tragedy of unemployment or any wish to deny the deterioration in the employment figures, which, he thought was inevitable consequent on the fall in the price level of primary commodities. At the same time it was right to recognise that there had been a great increase in relieving the people as a whole over the past four years as a result of the fall in the cost of living and that the relief of the misfortunes of unemployment through the insurance scheme, public assistance, and the general social services was on a scale not matched in any other country in the world.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19381223.2.68
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 9
Word Count
182LESS EMPLOYMENT Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in