1 MARCH 1935, Page 3

There is still great uneasiness at the future of the

Unemployment Regulations. There are rumours of grave dissensions between the Unemployment Assistance Board and the Ministry of Labour, and the Government is even credited with the intention of not issuing fresh scales but of trying to keep indefinitely to the existing standstill agreement. In the meantime all the reports from the constituencies are that the opposition is far more noisy and truculent than it has been since the Labour rout of 1931. Those who are subject to the Means Test feel that they have got the Government on the run and that they have only got to keep up the pressure to ensure fresh surrenders.