A certain amount of unemployment is inevitable in an industrial state like this. For the support of the worker, out through no fault of his own, there should be an adequate scheme of unemployment in surance on a contributing basis. The contribution from the worker should be so much on the pound of his earnings. That from the employer or from the combined employers of the industry should be twice as much and from the State there should be a contribution proportionate. with the necessity for assistance to the industry at the time. The benefits should be, with reasonable safeguards, for an unlimited time and' they should enable the recipient to live frugally, pay his rent and buy necessary clothes. That is the only just pal-Hative of this very dreadful evil. It throws on the employers the main financial responsibility for the men on the pavements, and makes every worker contribute in proportion to his ability to do so.
If the only suggestions Capital has to offer to the British worker are, that he must produce cheaper than any other nation or community, then the worker is quite reasonable and moderate in retorting to Capital that it has de—clared its own bankruptey and it will have no more of it.
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