Foreign News: Dole Report

British workmen who are bona fide "unemployed" receive $4.50 per week from the dole,* $1.25 more if they have "a wife or housekeeper," and 50¢ more for each child.

These payments may now continue the year round; though it was the original intent of the Government that no worker should receive money from the dole for more than 15 weeks.

Therefore, many a British taxpayer approved, last week, when a commission chairmaned by potent barrister Baron Blanesburgh recommended, after investigation thousands of dole cases that the principle of the original 15-week limit be...

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