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Back in 1923 philosophic Frederick Head, father of five, stopped working. For twelve long years he has done nothing more strenuous than draw $8.50 every week from Britain's dole-in all some $5,000. Urged to attend free classes at a government school to learn a gainful trade, Mr. Head always replied: "I wouldn't waste my time in no school...
...work undertaken should be useful. . . . Compensation . . . should be ... larger than the amount now received as a relief dole but ... riot so large as to encourage the rejection of opportunities for private employment. . . . Projects should be undertaken on which a large percentage of direct labor can be used. Preference should be given to those projects which will be self-liquidating. . . . Projects . . . should be selected . . . to compete as little as possible with private enterprises...
There was only one crumb of comfort for Conservatives-the last two sentences in the following passage: "If a man is able and willing to work, but can get no work, provision for his security must be made. I do not mean the dole. The dole is a rotten thing!" What he did mean, the Premier said, was unemployment insurance-that being the correct name in England for what is loosely called the dole...
...morose Haakon VII could thank his stars that in 1934 his Kingdom enjoyed the largest export business since the War, nearly double the volume for 1933. Down in Copenhagen hard-jawed Christian X felt safer because Danish workmen, mostly ardent Socialists, are now only 18% enrolled upon the dole, a magnificent drop from...
Last week there were 5,000,000 heads-of-families on the dole...