Word: joblessness
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...stockbroker can see clearly, as Major Stanley does, the major defect in Britain's Dole. It has been administered by petty local boards. These are under ceaseless pressure from the local jobless. Obviously it would be more scientific, and it should be cheaper, to have National Government administer the Dole on a uniform, nationwide basis...
...first 25 jobless miners' families moved to Reedsville from their hovels in nearby mining settlements. To provide quick shelter, quick work for unskilled hands, Washington authorities ordered 50 ready-cut, four-room houses at a reported price of $48,000. The first families were to move in by Thanksgiving. Meantime they were lodged around the neighborhood...
Disgruntled jobless miners rubbed their eyes, grinned at the prospect of jobs at good wages. In Seaham they read announcements that Londonderry Collieries Ltd. has decided to spend $1,250,000 at Seaham Harbor putting up a huge plant for extraction of oil from Seaham coal. "This will mean jobs for 1,500 additional men in the mines," said a Londonderry executive. By rushing construction of the great plant at a speed unprecedented in Britain, Londonderry expects to open it in March, the General Election being expected shortly afterward...
Four weeks after becoming jobless a man should begin drawing half pay from the insurance fund or $15 a week, whichever is less. This payment should continue from 15 to 25 weeks depending on how long the beneficiary had been previously employed. After 25 weeks insurance payments should end and the unemployed person should go on work relief...
...royal New Year honors he unobtrusively became a baron (TIME, Jan. 7). Last week Lord Betterton bustled about new quarters in Thames House in London, organizing a staff which will total some 5,000 dole administrators. Their job will be to see that jobless Britons between 16 and 65 whose earnings never averaged more than $25 per week receive the cash that is their due "as a matter of right and decency" providing they make bona fide efforts to get to work. This makes Lord Betterton the stern official Santa Claus of some 17,000,000 subjects of George...