UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1929, Page 7

UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE

A CRITICAL DIVISION. (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 28. In the House of Commons, excitement arose in the Committee stage on the Unemployment Insurance Bill , when the Conservatives decided to support a Liberal amendment making the payment of insurance money tp persons under the age of eighteen years conditional upon their attendance at some course of instruction. Miss Bondfield opposed the ( amendment on the ground that it was impracticable, as any machinery for the giving of the instruction did not exist. ’ ' . y ■ - For some time it was believed that the Government would be defeated. However, the amendment was negaThe voting was :— For the amendment 167. . Against' the amendment 237. Majority against 70The Labourites cheered the result of the division. One Labourite shouted: “The new Coalition won’t work!” ./ ? • WIDOWS’ PENSIONS. /RUGBY, November 27. The second reading of the Widows’ Pensions Bill was passed by the House of Lords last night. Its most important provision is a pension of 10/- a week granted to widows over 55 years old of insured men who died or attained the age of 70 before 1926. Un-, der the 1925 Act the grant of pensions to widows of insured men was not made retrospective. The new Bill, i will add to the number of widows receiving pensions.