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-c- 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 reapplied, after having been allowed to lapse during the recent acute unemployment crisis now gradually passing. Hereafter, it is recommended, dole payments should be made during, but not to exceed, 13 weeks per half year.

*Popular abbreviation for the Unemployment Insurance Fund of the Ministry of Labor.