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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
1921.
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RELIEF PLANS FOR THE
UNEMPLOYED.
Public Utility Works,
The Ministry of Labour last month issued the following report
The Cabinet Committee on Ua- employment, which was appoint- ed before the recess, resumed its deliberations this morning. Sir Alfred Mond presided. The following Ministers were also present-Sir Robert Horne, Dr. Macnamara, Mr. Neal.
The Committee reviewed the whole position with regard to unemployment and distress arising therefrom, and considered reports by the departments. including reports OR special areas The Committee consi- dered both means of relieving the present distress And various measures required to provida for | the situation which will develop
in the winter months.
The Committee were informed that the number of workpeople registered at the employment exchanges as unemployed was
July 1 July 15
August 12... August 19... August 26... September 2
Wholly Short unemployed. time.
2,170,000 988 000 1.86%,000 607,000 1,637,000 471,000 1,642,000 444,000 407,000 1,574,000 1,527,000 400,000
(bool)
Owing to the long period of trade depression the number of persons who have exhausted their unemployment benefit rights under the Unemployment. Insurance Aets, including the extended period, making - 22 weeks' benefit in all, is now about 200,000.
Under the provisions of the Acts, however, persons whose rights to unemployment benefit
will Bre exhausted
again be entitled to draw benefit for a further period of 16 weeks from November 2. This should materially relieve the position.
The Scottish Parish Councils bave been circularized by the Scottish Board of Health with a | view to the Councils making pro- vision to meet distress on the lines in force in the case of beards of guardians in England and Wales.
The Committee examinesì various proposals as to methods of rendering financial assistance in districts where unemployment is particularly severe, to local authorities who are prepared to undertake relief scbemes upon. genuine work of public utility. including the acceleration of normal work. A meeting bas been arranged between represent- atives of the Treasury, the Minis try of Health, and the Scottish Board of Health and represents. tives of the local authorities.
RIVAL PROPOSALS.
A news agency states that the possibility of further extension of the dole system was definitely ex- cluded. Two distinct proposals, iz adds, were placed before the Com- mittee. One, put forward by Dr. Macnamara, provided for a grant
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Relief Organisations Meet
individual per month) will require tions and apparently indifferent touched. quer in order to give local authori-
$900,000.
to the sufferings of the people. In order to prevent such an OTHERS take your photos, but ties the necessary funds to proceed by our 30 years experience we with their scteraes
Mr. W. E. Souter on his recent The surtax funds on telegraphs, eventuality, and seeing the splan. without Lake Fours in EXCELLENT recourse to the rates. An alterna-
in Shanghai.
journey to Peking, saw something railways and likin raised on did work done by the Chipene- CONDITION and NATURALive scheme, for which Sir Alfred
of the devastated region. The account of the last famine, baye: Foreign Famine Relief Committee Mond is believed to have been remet ben of the Chinese Foreign fu have been simply converted can be expected from this quarter. tions have come to an in At the invitation of some of the once fertile regions around Jeng all been used up, and little relief last year, these various organiza- sponsible, was that local authori ties abould be empowered to raise Famine Relief Committee, 11 into an immense inland-lake, and Many of the once rich farmers in standing and are willing to join loans with the object of proceed-Chinese Relief Organisations met according to reliable report of the these districts contributed to- together and form one central ing with relief work, and that the on the 18th inst. at Shanghai to foreiza officials of the railway wards the relief of famine last committee, and all funds will be interest on such loans should be discuss and formulate ways and line, some 8,000 square miles are year, and when their turn of need distributed by an international water, with about six comes, they will also expect out-distribution tcard who will be re- guaranteed and paid by the means to relieve the distress of under
flood sufferers in Anhui, Kisogsu, million people affected. Some side help.
sponsible for the proper spending of all mories received. Cheklang, Shantung and Hapeh. little relief is being undertaken MANY SOCIETIES ORGANIZED.
{ This new provisional interna- According to the report of Mr. by the Nanking people with
raised funds
locally. Many prominent Chinese mer-tional committee. issue invita- £50 FISE FOR OPIUM SMUGGLING.H. S. Ferguson, of the China some
from is far
ade-chanta in Shanghai, realising the tions in the near future to the For concealing 4lb. of pre-inland Mission, the district bot this pared opium with the object of around Chengyangkuan, Ying- quate to cope with the situation. seriousness of the situation, bare Chinese and foreign officials. Prading the Customs duty, a shanhaien and the districts ex- It is apparent that if no sub- started relief societies. The sud- merchants and gentry of the Special Department for Develop-Chinese quartermaster, belonging tending from these centres as stantial help is coming to these den springing up of so many ill-town, appealing for their support A.3 tbe Husi River, sufferers, the death roll doring organized bodies is bound to cause and co-operation in organizing. ping Printing for Amateurs and to the steamer Jacatta, at Royal far"
absolutely destitate the coming winter will be simply overlapping in the work of relief, an efficient committee to under- population of 150,000 and his appalling. The Governments and possibly a good portion of the take this humanitarian work...
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