IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 13090, 24 October 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 23. The following Ministerial motion wifi be moved in the House of Commons on Monday : The House welcomes Mr Asquith’s statement regarding the national importance of the problem of unemployment, and approves of the steps by which it is proposed to deal with the matter. Mr Keir Bardie, on behalf of the Independent Labor party, will move as an amendment: That while recognising the importance of Mr Asqujth’s promise to introduce early legislation dealing with unemployment on a permanent basis, and welcoming the promise to administer with more elasticity the existing Act and to provide more money, this House is of opinion that the proposals are quite inadequate to meet the pressing needs of the- unemployed this winter, and. the responsibility for the absence of proper machinery for carrying out the existing powers and the general unprepared ness of the country to meet the present unemployed crisis is due to the neglect of the Government to make provision for a state of affairs which was clearly foreseen. n’ ~* The Unionists will not move an amendment. ; LONDON, October 23. (Received October 24, at 8 a.m.) In order to relieve the unemployed, the Glasgow Corporation intend to memorialise the Government to proceed with the construction of the Forth-Clyde ship canal.