UNEMPLOYMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18351, 15 September 1921, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT.

POSITION IN ENGLAND. LABpUR EXCHANGE’S REPORT. ■ 0 CABINET COMMITTEE’S RECOMMENDATIONS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 13, (Received Sept. 14, at 5.5 p.m.) The Cabinet’s Committee upon Unemployment had a long conference. It considered the Labour Exchange’s report, which showed that 1,527,000 persons are wholly unemployed. About 400,000 are working short time and 290,000 have exhausted their unemployment benefits, having been out of work more than 22 weeks, but they will bo entitled to a further 16 weeks from November 2. Cabinet decided that there must be no extension of’ individual doles, which was the worst means of relieving unemployment. The committee recommended that assistance be given to local authorities out of the Treasury. It is understood that it contemplates thus spending £10,000,000. The committee discussed the largo road scheme as a means of relieving the situation.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BRITISH EX-SERVICE MEN. RECONSTRUCTION WORK IN FRANCE. LONDON, September 13. (Received Sept. 14, at 8 p.m.) Two hundred ex-servicemen left London to work in the French devastated areas. If the experiment proves successful other batches will be sent, and will bo paid at the French trade union rates of two francs per hour for unskilled labour.—Reuter.