THE RIGHT TO WORK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11856, 21 May 1909, Page 5

THE RIGHT TO WORK.

; LABOR EXCHANGES. (Press Assn.— By Te^egra^h;— Copyright) *••■ --.I.;.- ••■•■:••;■ LONDON, M<iy 20. , 1 In the House of Commons, Mr Winiton CMrchill, President of the Board pf- Trade, explained a Bill which he intrdducos to-day to establish labor exbhanges .'early next year, at a cost of onnitm'at the outset and tneri £170,000 "per annum. The country M'ill be divided into , ten divisions, oacn with a clearing house, London -supplying a natiorinl clearing h^k«o.. Ho proposes- to establish' betweeln thirty and forty first-class exchanges m towns of a hundred thousand ' inhabitant and upwards,, and forty-five -in;,.- second-cluss ioAVjia with between sO,Qof> nnd" 100,000 irihabituats, and a nwnbet of sub-oilicep in smaller tewns; Advisoty committees kcilV b* apjH)inted in tho chief centre/? , >vhereon -workmen < and ebVploycm will - ineet in equal numb'ers'y Mjrith., impartial iierma'nent nnd ; a. fihairhian. 'tho jPoVei'iiment Scheme provides f oi- compulsory contribi'tidn 1o luiomployment. .: Mr Winstbn Cliurchill next explained ihafc; the Act' wiir bocfmo operative in !l9il, i for , selected trades, representing Hyo and .a-qunrtor. v injllieili of ndultn, covering the \vorst- : hulf of the field of tmefriployment.. SHfchtlj r under 6d per pbr irihu would' be tailed by con'tribujtians' ft'om VN'flvkmerii employers, .{aid the 1 ■ ftft?n going to the exc]itinges wbiiid be given a job or receive benefits pay. -" ; n !i . ■ Mr P. Smith (Cyniservntjve and, Turin' Reform, niotnbor for the Walton -llivisiyu of "Liverpool) approved of the Bill. ' Mr Henderson^ (Labor .member for tlui ißarnnJ'd Oastle l>iv|vion of llurluim) warmly J thanked Mr Winston 'Church ill . iuid Tomrtrk«d that •• tho liiikor Party'a •Right to Worlf Bill' would bo curried by instalmentßi ' - ' ' '■ '■ '•■ ■'•'•■" -4