The Archive · 1931

UNEMPLOYMENT INS

BILL

London, June 19.

The text was published to-day of the Unemployment Insurance Bill, designed to deal with certain anomalies in the operation of unemployment insurance acts and to. provide for facilitating the removal yorkers and their dependents from one place to another.

The anomalies in question were revealed in the recently published interim report of the Royal Com-'They affect four classes first, workers who 1 ceive substantial earnings or similar payments in in respect of which benefit is payable; secondly,, seasonal workers; thirdly, persons. two days in a week; and, fourthly, nnarried women she have ceased to normally employed in insurable employment.

The Bill proposes to deal wit these classes of persons by enolling the Minister of Labou sultation with an advisory _committee constituted for the purpose fand containing representatives. of employers and workers, to make regulations applying special pro-Visinns to the classes in question. Wireless through Reuter, Union, noted that after ending the municipal economy in the Sort

Pear the government had tst foretlore indacty acd agriculave Sed'thats therefore, the question of frunicipel economy' had "to" take sti Sing fae ast the fate Only daring the past three years

been able to bring order into their jzocomy, thus in, the main con And entering that of reconstruc retin ihe period of restoratan

tion. "The Siena urges all—the Pariy, the Soviets, the tende-unions snd ihe economic oratizationt to take up the task of quickly eliminating lagging municipal economy.

'During the past five years muni-I housebuilding on a large scale had been developed, 3,500 million roubles being invested in That and 29,000 million square metres built, providing hou facilities for more than a million rkers' families.

The cities of Baku, Grosny, Sta-ingram and Novisibirsk were reconstructed and the new towns of Dnieprostroi, Kuznotzk, Djerjinsk and others built, Tramway lines and canalisation systems were built in several towrs. All this construction work had been chiefly done for industrial. places—Trans-Ocean Kuo Bin,

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