The Insurance Bill Our Parliamentary correspondent has mentioned the forced
withdrawal of the clause in the Unemployment Insurance Bill dealing with those " genuinely seeking work," and we need only briefly summarize here the new clause which has been drafted for presentation to the House of Commons on Thursday after we have gone to press. The new clause has been accepted by the Labour dissentients and is said to be substantially satisfactory to the Liberals. If this be so its passage is ensured, but the Unionists will, no doubt, protest strongly against the transference of the whole responsibility for finding work from the applicant to the officials. If the failure of the officials definitely to prove that applicants for benefit could have found work increases, as seems likely, the outgoings of the Insurance Fund a still wider gap will be made in the theory that the Fund rests on an actuarial basis. * * * *
