Unemployment Insurance The Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance has presented
its first (interim) Report to the King. It will be remembered that the Government took the matter out of the hands of a Parliamentary Committee and handed it over, with instructions to report in all haste, to a Royal Commission presided over by Judge Holman Gregory with whom have sat an actuary, an economist and social workers, but no politician. The position was too serious for any seeking of popularity or avoiding dangers at election times. For apart from the alleged demoralization due to the system as ad- ministered to-day, there is the unrefuted evidence which startled the world when it was given by the Treasury that payment of the benefit was bringing the country to the brink of a chasm in which her credit might be lost. That would mean starvation for most of us.
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