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...Barmouth, Wales, last week the British dole was justified by David Lloyd George thus: "We would have had a revolution long ago but for the dole...
...second thought the careful Welshman, who always leaves himself an "out," added that "even better than the dole" would have been a system of employing the unemployed on public works. "I be-lieve," he proclaimed, "that there is no justice in allowing even one man to starve through no fault of his own while there is a crust to spare in the nation's cupboard...
...avert a riot, England's merchants, hard-pressed themselves by the Depression, began to dole out food to the hungry. More than 300 were each supplied with a ration worth $2.75. Fearful of a repetition of the raid, Lawyer Morris declared: "These people just simply got hungry. The merchants of England must either move their goods or mount machine guns on their stores...
...death." Idleness. "Unemployment is causing anxiety in Italy as in all other countries. We have a half-million unemployed at the present time, of whom 100,000 are women and 250,000 come from agriculture and the building trades where seasonal unemployment prevails. I am opposed to the dole. I prefer relief in the form of public works which substantially increase the efficiency of our national economic equip ment. The dole tends the workers to idleness." Prosperity: "I am confident that the peace of the world will be preserved, and that before long a new era of prosperity will dawn...
With 2,000,000 Britons officially "unemployed" the objective looked easy, is actually almost insurmountable. Reason: an unemployed man loafing on the "dole" is paid more than a hard-drilling British soldier...