MICAWBER’S GOSPEL AND BRITISH CABINET

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2308, 28 November 1925, Page 9

MICAWBER’S GOSPEL AND BRITISH CABINET

Things are Sure to be Better Nest Year

CENSURE MOTION FOR IGNORING WORKLESS

JBy Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Auat. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday, 7 p.m.) LONDON. November £6. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bhaw, in the absence of Mr. Clj’nes, who is ill, submitted a censure motion regretting the Ministry’s continued failure to deal adequately with unemployment and alleging that discrimination was being shown in the payment of relief; Mr. Shaw complained that the unemployed figures were understated. There were at present at least a million and a quarter idle. He taunted Mr. Churchill with saying that bis Budget was o cornucopia, overflowing with good things, but the workers did not get enough from It to bait a mouse-trap. Mr. Shaw declared the postion of the workless was rapidly growing worse. Mr. Lloyd George said many people were of opinion the exptcted trade recovery next year would absorb most of the unemployed. If this expectation were right, it would bo a mistake to embark on great relief schemes.

If recovery wore slow, it would be desirable to bring out schemes to save the country from the peril of continued idleness of thousands of young men.

Sir W. Steel Maitland, in replying said he had never seen a bigger, mare's nest produced by a number of most excellont-intentioned persons. It was the Oppositionists, whose generosity ran away with their heads, who would make it a thinly camouflaged system of poor relief. There was unquestionably a distinct improvement in trade and .the foreign, outlook wa s brighter. It was futile to condemn the Ministry for the evil, which was world wide. The better outlook for industries, coupled with good crops abroad,, should help shipping, the new Safe* guarding Industries Act should also assist.

Captain W. Brass urged extensive credits for migration to the Dominions.

Mr. Macdonald deprecated the harmful impression abroad arising from the false description of the dole. The Ministry had not seriously tackled the twin problems of trade and unemployment.

The motion was rejected by 323 votes to 133,