GREATER BENEFITS
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
(British Official. Wireless.) . (Received July 4, 2 p.m.)
RUGBY, July 3,
The Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Bevin, had the unusual experience of making his maiden Parliamentaryspeech in the House of. Commons from the front bench when moving the second reading of the Unemployment Insurance Bill, which increases, the rate of benefit and extends the scope to a' large number pf black-coated workers,- . . - . - /:.-.
Mr. Bevin said that unemployment in certain branches of industry was being created deliberately of sheer national necessity,-partly by delay in the transfer, of workers, to war industry. "When you deliberately, in the interests of the State, create unemployment, you cannot then take advantage of the rates fixed for an entirely different purpose," he said.
Mr. Bevin explained that the increase in the contribution rate of the worker and employer was necessary because he had to see that the new regulations would not entail borrowing, especially as he regarded a temporary boom after the present war as impossible. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 12
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