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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 18, 1938.

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM IN BRITAIN

London, To-day.'

Votes for the Ministry of Labour and the Un- employment Assistance Board were discussed in Committee of Supply in the Commons yes- terday afternoon.

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in reviewing the various aspects of the Ministry's and the Board's work stated that 2,500,000 men and women were placed in em- ployment through Labour Exchanges last

year.

FRANCO-ITALIAN NEGOTIATIONS

NEAR BREAKDOWN

Dealing with industrial trans- ference, Mr. 'Lennox Boyd said that last year 17,500 men, 6,500 women and about 7,000 families were transferred a high proportion from the specially depressed areas. The Minister also referred to the extensions of the Unemployment Insurance Scheme which took place during the year. Some 100,000 Following a Cabinet meeting|private_gardeners were added to yesterday, M. Blondel, the the agricultural scheme. Since last charge d'affaires in Rome, was year a further 50,000 chauffeurs instructed to inform the Italian and 170,000 institutional workers Government of the surprise in 38 well as 30,000 gamekeepers, French circles caused by Signor stablemen and kindred employees Mussolini's speech in Genoa.

have been brought within unem-

Paris, To-day.

However, the French Govern-ployment insurance. Whereas ten ment is continuing negotiations in years ago the number of people Rome for a. Franco-Italian agree enjoying the benefits of unemploy-

ment insurance were

12,500,000,

ment, although it is doubtful whe- ther fruitful results will be achiev- the figure to-day was 15,000,000.

ed.

It will be recalled that Il Duce foreshadowed this in his speech on Saturday, when he stated the two countries were on opposite sides of the barricade in Spain.-Reuter.

UNEMPLOYMENT

It was unhappily true that on April 4th, the number of registered un- employed was as high as 1,748,000. But of those about 358,000 were temporarily laid off and it was rea-

re-

ANGLO-AMERICAN sonable to assume a large propor-

DISCUSSIONS

tion were expecting an early sumption of work... About. 68,000 were casual workers, like dockers, who happened to beidle--on the London, To-day, day of the count. Of the remaining An answer was given in the 1,200,000 odd, nearly half-had-been- Commons regarding the American out of work less than six weeks. proposal for international action to There still remained a formidable -deal-with-the-problem-of-refugees hard-core-of-continuous unemploy- driven from their homes for racial, menit, and it must be a matter for religious or political reasons.

concern in a country where so many

in

Mr. Butler, said that more than good craftsmen, who are anxious to thirty 'countries had now agreed to resume work, found difficulty cooperate in the establishment of getting jobs.

an inter-government committee, pro-

posed by the United States Govern-

ment which had suggested that the

LABOUR CRITICS

first meeting should be held at Chief criticism from the Opposi- Evian on July 6th..

tion speakers was directed to the He thought the bearing of this recent order of the Unemployment committee's work upon the refugee Assistance Board to its local offici- activities of the League of Nations als to discontinue the additional to -would no doubt be discussed at that grants authorised last Autumn

meeting, and the President of the meet winter conditions with a ris- Board of Trade told the Commons (ing cost of living. he was not in a position to make

The Under-Secretary had pre- any statement at present on the viously drawn attention to the progress of the Anglo-American movements, in the cost of living trade negotiations which were still index which he claimed justified the proceeding. British Wireless.

Board's action, and added that the Board had under consideration new regulation which would give. them power to make appropriate increases

MIRROR ON THE here ses during winter months in

CHINA WAR

An analysis of the battle of the Taierchwang, with its similarity in

future. The debate is continuing -British Wireless.

new Chinese armies in the making, ¡conservation and development of

general strategy to Tannenberg, is good supplies, and the mobilisation

the one of the special features of latest issue of the "Far Eastern Mirror," just published.

the

of civilians for national service.

Remarkable extracts. from Some of the most interesting diary of a Japanese airman are to articles in the issue show the various be found, confirming Chinese claims phases of China's preparations for of heavy exactions of the Japanese a long war of attrition against the Air Force, for their raiding ven Japanese, including the plans for the1tures.

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