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...Government's latest relief agency, Civil Works Administration, whelped with the aid of a $400,000,000 grant from the public works fund, was distributing its pay checks, thus removing 1,183,438 jobless from local charity roils. These men had been required to work for their dole on small emergency projects...
...Received from Sir Henry Bucknall Betterton, Minister of Labor, precisely the sort of bill to "reform" the British Dole which might be expected from a graduate of Rugby and Christ Church College, Oxford, and a member of the arch-Tory Carlton Club...
...Henry's bill made Laborites see red and swear purple. It would take discretion in dole cases away from the local boards appointed by Britain's municipal councils, many of which have just been captured by Labor in sweeping gains at the last municipal elections (TIME, Nov. 13). A central government board, staffed by civil servants, would administer a much restricted dole, based on division of the jobless into three classes: 1) "the occasionally unemployed"; 2) "the chronically unemployed"; and 3) "the unemployable destitute" who would get only such relief as is provided in the Poor Laws established...
...there will be an end to all this. The dollar low is accompanied by an unemployment insurance high as 4,000,000 men are added to 12,000,000 now on the British dole or its predecessor. When Mr. Bull finds himself buying food and clothing for twenty-odd million men in government workhouses and training schools, he will for one thing be less interested in the menace of foreign cutthroat competition than in the necessity of importing the necessities of Life on an Island by the most likely means at hand, monetary or otherwise. CASTOR...
...schools longer than with business and trade. This year, therefore, will probably be the most difficult year of the Depression as far as schools are concerned." Though many a conference has voted to urge Federal aid-notably one at Teachers College which went so far as to advocate a dole for all pupils until they find employment-the U. S. Government regards the difficulties of the schools as purely local problems. Commissioner Zook can offer no cash help. But, like a kindly, keen-eyed, plump-faced uncle, he may give advice, put at Education's disposal a vast amount...