The Labour Party Executive and the Parliamentary Com- mittee of
the Trade Union Congress appointed their committee on January 11th, and this body on Saturday, January 22nd, published a lengthy exposition of policy in regard to unemploy- ment. The Government were blamed for letting private industry obtain high prices and high profits—accompanied, as the com- mittee omitted to add, by very high wages. The committee demanded the opening of trade with Russia and Central Europe. It proposed that all persons should be found work or given maintenance at the rate of at least £2 a week for a family or 25s. for a single man or woman, with allowances for dependents. The Government, it said, must end their " military adventures " in the East and their "military oppression and lawless reprisals " in Ireland, and must embark on vast schemes of expenditure in building schools and houses, in repairing canals and railways, in afforestation, and in erecting electric power stations, and in assisting local improvements.
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