The Committee stage of the Unemployment Insurance Bill has proceeded
so slowly that the Vote of Censure on the Government has been postponed till next week. On Monday a strong opposition developed to the provision that thirty stamps must be earned for an insurance card during the two years preceding a claim. It was said that in seasonal and dwindling industries there would be wholesale disqualifications. Equally strong were 'the objections to putting on an insured person the onus of proving, that he was a worker. It was suggested that it should be the duty of the Exchanges to prove a person a shirker. Piquancy was given to all this discussion by the fact that the Labour speakers were really attacking tests which they themselves had invented. The Minister of Labour vigorously clung to his belief that the phrase " genuinely seeking work " fairly covered all cases, and could not be bettered. " Everybody knows what it Means." No person, however, would be deprived of the right- to aPpeal.
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