To those of the unemployed who have exhausted all their other _resources the payment of the Unemployment Insurance Grant, or the "dole," as' it is commonly bat incorrectly called, is a dubious benefit. Being insufficient in itself to buy enough food and fuel to support lite its recipients are forced to apply to the Guardians for additional relief. The usual scale is allowed them, less what they have received in insurance benefit, and for the same trouble and bumifiation they could have obtained the whole of the money from the Guardians without the trouble of queuing up for a portion of it at the Labour Exchange.
The chief benefit of the "dole" is that it gives an additional chance to keep off the rates to those people who have not used up all their resources, The trade depression has continued for such a long time that most of the unemployed now out are those who have been scientifically weeded out of the workshops by foremen and employers in their search for the maximum of efficiency. They consist of young men lacking experience, who have just completed their apprenticeship; old men who powers are failing; sick men who cannot go the pace, and the incompetents, lazy, and trouble-makers. This fact partly explains the recent outery from employers on the evils of emigration. They are aware that it is not the C3 type of unemployed who are leaving the country and taking their skill elsewhere, but the physically fit and skilled, who can find employment anywhere, and who will get a much higher standard of living in America than in England. It 1s at last being realized that there is some capital value in the British workman and that he may be a notable acquisition to our commercial rivals.
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