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EX-MINISTER’S PROPOSALS SCHEME PRESENTED TO HOUSE. ANNUAL COST—TEN MILLIONS. (British' Official Wireless.) Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, May 29. During the later stages of the unemployment debate in the House of Commons, Sir Oswald Mosley, who rex eently resigned from the Government -WlTecnnse Cabinet had objected to the T proposals he had made for drastic ’ handling of unemployment, gave details of his scheme. This included measures which, lie claimed, would employ 800,009 men at an annual cost of .-£10,000,000, and which involved an emergency retirement pension to persons over 60, the raising of the school-leaving age and interest on hig loans for special relief works. The Lord Privy Seal. Mr J. H. Thomas, the Minister responsible, for employment, analysed and criticised Sir Oswald Mosley’s proposals in detail and said that they had been carefully examined by Cabinet Ministers and rejected by those prejudiced in their favour.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 30 May 1930, Page 9
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