LARGE SUMS FOR NON-PAUPER RELIEF.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 246, 16 October 1908, Page 4

LARGE SUMS FOR NON-PAUPER RELIEF.

NO PANIC LEGISLATION.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received Oct. 16, 8.10 a.m.) v -' LONDON, Oct: 15. , Mr John Burns, President of the Local- Government Board, speaking at Tynemouth, said thai there would be no legislation relating,to th© right,to work or_ the unemployment problem this session, but by next Ma»eh more' would have been spent in the distress areas in non-pauper relief _than during the whole period of the Lancashire cotton famine.

In a speech at Newcastle, Mr Burns declared that he refused to be a party to panic legislation in regard to unemployment., The war against poverty was not a skirmish, * but a long, dogged campaign, lasting perhaps a century.