POOR LAW RELIEF
SOCIALIST GUARDIANS
GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION,
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LONDON, January 20. (Received January 21, at 9.55 a.in.) The ‘ Daily Maill ’ says that when the Coalition Government in 1918 gave votes to persons receiving poor law relief it struck a serious blow at sound local administration. Mr Baldwin's Government has gradually realised that such persons should be disfranchised, and is preparing a Bill for this purpose, also to prohibit employees of guardians or councillors becoming candidates for a seat on any local authority. The Bill will further empower the Minister of Health to supersede board of guardians in certain cases.
This is aimed against “ Poplarism,” and shows that the Government recognises that Socialist local authorities are endeavoring to introduce the worst features of Socialism, granting extravagant outdoor relief and seeking to interfere with the economic rates of wages by making it more profitable for a man to draw relict and remain idle than to work.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19153, 21 January 1926, Page 5
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