Mrs. Webb and the Dole Mrs. Webb (Lady Passfield), as
a witness before the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance last week, made it clear that she had no liking for the grandiose and fantastic scheme put forward by the Trades Union Council last summer and involving an expenditure of untold millions for " work or full maintenance." She insisted that unemployment benefit must be restricted to partial maintenance, for a period not exceeding a year, and that persons who had run out of benefit should receive a subsistence allowance only if and so far as they needed it. The whole question of unemployment in- surance, on which the Commission should report at an early date, is so important and so complex that Mrs. Webb's moderate and reasonable views deserve attention. But does Mrs. Webb or the T.U.C. represent the true opinion of the Labour Party ?
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