UNEMPLOYMENT
LABOUR SChSe REJECTED. (Australian and N.Z.’. Cable Association.} LONDON, March 6. The House of Commons, by 184 votes to 132, 'rejected the second reading of Mr. Lee-Smith’s (Labour) Prevention of Unemployment Bill, after a debate that was interesting as revealing the Labour'remedy for the trouble. The Bill proposed that an annual grant be made to a National Unemployment Beard, consisting of the principal spending Ministries, who would be empowered in times of depression to anticipate the ordinary, expenditure,, and also to prepare national and colonial development schemes, but who could withhold their operations during periods of prosperity, and in those periods build up a cash reserve.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1926, Page 5
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