THOSE IN NEED

Northern Advocate, 17 April 1933, Page 10

THOSE IN NEED

BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED

W ELF AR E LEG TSL A TTON,

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 0 a.m.) RUGBY, Apri\ in

The Minister of Health, Sir E, Hilton Young, announced in the House of Commons yesterday that before the end of. the session the Government 'would introduce a bill dealing on a national basis with the problem of assistance for those who are in need of it, including' those who have been ensured against unemployment but who are no longer so ensured. It would be the primary purpose ot the bill to make a close connection be-tween-work giving help and work promoting the physical and mental welfare of the unemployed by training for occupations and recreation. The bill would establish a measure of national control. It would redistribute the duties of local authorities and the Central Government. In relation to the assistance from the funds of local authorities or the Exchequer, one of the bases of this redistribution would be that the 'Central Government would accept responsibility, both administrative and financial, for assisting all able-bodie'd unemployed who needed assistance.

The Government had adopted an amendment to a censure motion, accepting responsibility for the assistance of all able-bodies unemployed under 65 years of age, with such readjustment in financial relations between the exchequer and the local authorities as was reasonable, having regard to the necessities in distressed areas.