UNEMPLOYMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13909, 21 May 1909, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT.

MR CHUB CHILL'S SCHEME. Press Association- By Tel eg rn ph~ Copy right Received 11.55 p.m., May 20th. LONDON, May 20. In the House of Commons, Sir Churchill, president of the Hoard of Trade, explained that- the. Bill which he introduced to-day would esatblish early next- year labour exchanges at a cost of £200,000 per annum at the outset, then £170,000. The country would bo 'divided into ten. divisions, each division with a'clearing house, and London supplying the national clearing house. The Bill proposes to establish between thirty and forty first-class, exchanges in the towns of one hundred thousand inhabitants, upwards of 45 in .second class towns between 50,000 and 100,000, and a number of sub-offices in the smaller towns. Advisory committees will be appointed at the chief centres, whereon and employers would meet 1 in equal numbers, with impartial permanent officials and a chairman. The Government scheme provides for. compulsory contributory unemployment. Mr- Churcliill explained that the Act would become operative in 1911 for selected trades representing 2j millions of adults, and covering the worst half, of the field.ol unemployment. Slightly under fid per week per man would be raised by contributions from workmen, employers, and the State. Men on going to the exchanges would be given a job or receive,, benefit pay. Mr* F. Smith (Conservative, Walton), approved of. the Bill, and Mr A. Henderson (Labour, Barnard Castl6) >\aim!y thanked Mr Churcliill. and remarked that the Labour parties' riglit_ to work Bill would be carried in instalments.