POOR-LAW RELIEF.
EVILS BEING REALISED. EXPERIENCES IN LONDON. Sun. LONDON. Jan. 20. The Daily Mail says that when the Coalition Government in 1918 gave votes to persons who were receiving poor-law relief it struck a serious blow at sound local administration. Mr. Baldwin's Government, says the paper, has gradually realised that such persons should be disfranchised, and it is preparing a bill for this purpose and also to prohibit employees of poor-law guardians, or councillors, from becoming candidates for any local authority. The bill will further empower the Minister of Health to supersede boards of guardians in certain cases. This is aimed against Poplarism. It shows, says the Mail, that the Government recognises that socialistic local authorities are endeavouring to introduce the worst features of socialism by granting extravagant outdoor relief, and by seeking to interfere with the economic rates of wages by making it more profitable for a man to draw relief pay and remain idle than to work.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19232, 22 January 1926, Page 9
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