The Government and the Unemployed Last week there was an
addition of 75,258 to the number of unemployed. This was 748,218 more than a year ago, and the total number of unemployed is now 7,890,600. The Government have declared their intention of introducing emergency legislation, but all that has been done so far is to draft a Facilities Bill. The purpose of the Bill is greatly to simplify the procedure in regard to Private Bill legislation. The ordinary course is for a Bill sanctioning important work by a local authority to go before a Private Bill Committee before it is considered in general debate. The Facilities Bill Will shorten this procedure by submitting the Bills to a Joint Parliamentary Committee. The impression produced at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Tuesday was that the Prime Minister had discovered nothing worthy of accep- tance in the recent Liberal proposals for reducing unem-
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