LABOR EXCHANGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2557, 19 July 1909, Page 3

LABOR EXCHANGES.

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL’S BILL In the '‘Financial Review of Reviews” Sir Charles McLaren and Mr Harold Cox each have something to say on Mr Winston Churchill: a Labour Exchanges Bill, which is now before the British Parliament. The former gentleman, one of the largest employers of labour in the United xvingdom,' points out that Mr Churchill desires eventually “to make use of the machinery created by , the .Labor' Exchange's, Bill for'establishing and conducting the system of/the State-aided insurance against unemployment, of which he has out-, lined the details. It must not, however, be supposed that these legislative proposals originated with the, present Cabinet, for not, only are they to be found in both the majority and the minority'reports of the Poor -Law Com- • mission, but they were foreshadowed by Mr Nathaniel Cohen nearly 20 years ago, in the column of the “Times,” and their practical effect has been seen in other countries, such as Germany, Austria/France, and Belgium, where labour exchanges have been at work for some years.” Mr Harold Cox, as was to he expected, is enthusiastic, declaring that: “Of all the projects put forward by the present Government, - there is none which seems so likely to add to the real progress of the .country - as the/proposal to establish a general system of labour exchanges. For the establishment of exchanges will not only be a good thing in itself, but it will render possible and prepare the way for other developments of equal or even greater importance. Labor exchanges are essential to the successful working of any general scheme of compulsory insurance against unemployment. They will also be of immense service to Poor Law authorities in: dealing with / the cases of men who are destitute, though willing to work.”