BRITAIN’S BURDEN
CURSE OF UNEMPLOYMENT YOUNG MEN GROWING UP IN IDLENESS. Received March 9, 8.20 p.m. LONDON, March 9. In the House of Commons a Labour motion in favour of the appointment of an impartial committee to re-examine unemployment problems was defeated by 252 votes to 142. Mr David Lloyd George (Liberal) urged that the problem was a very serious social and economic symptom of the day. Not only was the cost gigantic, but hundreds of thousands of young men were growing up in enforced itlleness.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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86BRITAIN’S BURDEN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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