UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

POSITION IN BRITAIN NEW BASIS ADOPTED RESPONSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENT (British Official WireleßS.) Roc. 10 a.m. ’ RUGBY, April 13. Sir Hilton Young announced in the House of Commons 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 assistance, including those who have been insured against unemployment, but who are no longer so insured.

It would be the primary purpose of Hie bill to make a close connection between work giving help, and work promoting the physical and mental welfare of the unemployed by training, occupation, and recreation. The bill would establish a measure of national control. Tt would redistribute the duties of local authorities and the central Government in relation to 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-bodied unemployed who needed assistance. The Government had adopted an amendment to a censure motion accepting responsibility for the assistance to all able-bodied unemployed under 65 years of age, with such readjustments in the financial relations between the Exchequer and local authorities as was reasonable, having regard to the necessities of distressed areas.