Word: snowden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dole? Such pot shots at the enemy pass more or less unnoticed in Parliament, but Mr. Snowden made his own party sit up and gasp when he appeared to foreshadow a cut in the unemployment dole...
...Snowden's Dole Policy. Since most Labor M. P.'s have promised their constituents more Treasury aid, not less, Mr. Snowden's speech thunderstruck his party with the conviction that it will badly handicap Labor candidates at the next elections. It was Laborite William John Brown who most completely lost his head. "This Socialist Government." he roared, "has neither the guts to govern nor the grace...
Chancellor Snowden did not help matters. Said he acidly of the Liberal measure: "We have already got about 70 committees. One more will do no good and no harm! Such little economies as committees may suggest don't count. It is only on policy that large savings can be made. Let the House of Commons face that...
...This speech [Snowden's] is the most revolutionary ever delivered in Parliament. ... It shows that the Labor Party has accepted the capitalist ideas they were sent to the House of Commons to expose! . . . Our whole front bench [Government party leaders occupy the right front bench] is at the bidding of the financial interests of this country! . . . The speech prepares the House for the sacrifice of unemployed men and women...
...present dole policy, as Mr. Snowden had already made clear, will cost some $275,000,000 if continued through the coming year. Of this, $75,000,000 is the State's regular contribution to the dole fund, and $200,000,000 will be technically "borrowed" by the fund from the Exchequer. Such borrowings already total some...