LABOUR

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13661, 1 August 1908, Page 5

LABOUR

UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND

THE SENTIMENTALioI'S DISSATISFIED. LONDON, July 30.

During a discussion on the administration of the Local Government Board, several Labour members urged the removal of the stringent conditions governing: the expenditure of the unemployed vote' of £200,000, owing to the expectation of an! unusually distressing winter.

M,r John Burns, President of they Local Government Board, said he did not share their gloomy ■ forebodings.'•- He declared it ! was impossible to-administer the unemployed vote- so as. to satisfy the ■sentimentalists,.; but. subject to the rules ;bi; good .finance, he - promised co get through all possible work during the winter monk He expected the report of the : Royal .Commission on the Poor Law in November, and if the report were as ' revolutionary as some feared it would be, it wSuld do as much harm as good. ."

ON;; BELIEF WOEK.

Per Press Association. !. CHRISTCHURCH, July 31. . Few applications for work are now being received by; the Labour Bureau. Arrangements' have been made, to sen,d: a dozen men -Ho the'- Midland Railway works next Tuesday, or as soon as the engineer in charge has advised accommodation is ready... 7 ■'. ','-'...< . The City Surveyor, who found work on behalf of the City Council for forty men, states;•;that that number cannot be continued ' after 'this week and nine or ten will finish on Saturday. . The : total number Would be reduced gradually as the amount .votfed. by. (the Council for : the relief works decreased.;-A; large proportion: of the men. had..': proved .themselves capable labourers and gome of them would probaly be transferred to such loan works as could be conveniently taken in hand at- once. The acute stage: of the scarcity of work had passed away, with the wet weather ■ and there was ■ every chance of men deisiring work to get it outside the Council.