POOR LAW RELIEF.
RETRACING THEIR, STEPS j SOCIALISTIC DAGGERS. REALISED BY GOVERNMENT. (Sun cable). (Received 10.45 a.m.) ' i. LONDON, January 20 V"Jhe Daily Mail says when tho Coalition Government in 1918 gave votes to persons receiving poor j law relief it struck a serious blow at sound local administration. | Tho Baldwin Government has gradually realised that such persons .should bo disfranchised and is preparing a Bill for this purpose; also to : prohibit employees of guardians or councillors 'becoming candidates . for any local authority.
The Bill will further empower the Minister of Health to supersede the boards of 'guardians in certain cases. This is aimed against "Poplajisin". and shows that the Government recognises that Socialist local author-, ities are endeavouring to introduce the worst features of Socialism |by granting extravagant outdoor relief and seeking to interfere with economic rates of wages by making It more profitable, for a man to draw \ relief and remain idle than to work.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 93, 21 January 1926, Page 5
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