BRITISH UNEMPLOYED.
INSURANCE BENEFITS EXTENDED. r i LABOUR NOT SATISFIED. . .—j m (Australian and N.2. Cable Assn.) LONDON, March 5. The Minister for Labour, Sir M. Barlow, moved the second reading of the Unemployed Insurance Act Amendment Bill to extend benefits to October. He warned Boards of Guardians not to try to improve upon the present generous scale of benefits. He said that in many areas the Guardians' relief and the insurance benefit together were equivalent to the standard rate for unskilled labour. Mr J. R. Clynes (Labour) complained that the measure was insufficient and disappointing. Dr. T. J. Macnamara (Liberal) urged that public utility schemes and Empire settlement schemes should be used to decrease Unemployment. Mr A. Hayday (Labour) disapproved of insurance by industries because industries with the lowest percentage of unemployment would contract out of the scheme, leaving the residue of casual seasonal trades to bear the burden.
Mr Sidney Webb (Labour) said that 600,000 unemployed were not getting unemployment benefit owing- to the increased stringency of the administration. There was growing dissatisfaction against the Government on this account. .. »
The Bill was read a second time without division. ~ ■
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15183, 8 March 1923, Page 7
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