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TO HELP UNEMPLOYED. LONDON. October 19. Continuing liis speech, .Mr. Lloyd (ieortre said that the unemployed would be assisted for six months by a weekly sum of 5s for the wife. Is for each child, up to a maximum of EM, which would lie provided by a compulsory levy of ‘2d each from employers and employees, with 3d from the State. In the ease of women, trirls and boys, the levy would be Id aud the State’s contribution 2d. A Government loan would be granted to dhe Boards of Guardians to deal with necessitous cases. However expenditure must be cut down, nothing could get rid of the fact that they were £8,000,003,000 in debt, and that they could not build tip strength on patent medicines. Trade would never he restored until the cost of production was reduced. lie appealed to Labour leaders to face the problem. Everything depended upon complete understanding and the goodwill and co-operation of the nations.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16560, 20 October 1921, Page 10
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