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Hard-squeezed British taxpayers who already contribute over $65,000,000 a yea to the unemployment dole winced as ' screw threatened to turn again last week. A special committee of the potent Trade Union Congress, meeting in London, blandly manifested to the Labor Government that the dole must be increased by paying the unemployed five shilling per week for their first child, three shillings for each succeeding child, from birth to the age for leaving school. A joker in the bill was the fact that illegitimate as well as legitimate children would draw the allowance. Agonized Liberal and Conservative...
...When these unemployment situations come along, workers are simply turned adrift. Men should earn money, not have it doled out to them.* But unless employers change their tactics toward the Unions, we shall face either Federal unemployment insurance [i.e. the dole] to care for the jobless or have a revolution on our hands. The country cannot stand these continual shocks. . . . The unions could help . . . but in great industrial centres like Detroit and Toledo large mass production employers seem to hate the A. F. of L. worse than the Communists. When depressions come, they throw their workers on the street...
...Britain, keeping tabs through the dole, last week reported its jobless...
...easy for travelers going South for the Winter, North for the Summer. Unlike the walkers of Germany who are out for the sport of pedestrianism and who want no rides, unlike the troops of unemployed in England who move from town to town on foot to get a dole and who shun on automobile, the U. S. hitch-hiker is going places as fast as possible...
Seville. Eight thousand unemployed bearing banners, WE WANT BREAD AND WORK, called on the mayor and civil governor, demanded a dole of 75% of their former salaries. Seville's mayor announced that he would "do everything possible to get them work...