Hard-squeezed British taxpayers who already contribute over $65,000,000 a yea to the unemployment dole winced as ' screw threatened to turn again last week. A special committee of the potent Trade Union Congress, meeting in London, blandly manifested to the Labor Government that the dole must be increased by paying the unemployed five shilling per week for their first child, three shillings for each succeeding child, from birth to the age for leaving school. A joker in the bill was the fact that illegitimate as well as legitimate children would draw the allowance....
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