Unemployment Insurance The debate in the House of Commons. on.
Friday, April 4th, on. the proposal to increase the borrowing powers of the Unemployment Insurance Fund was not very controversial. It produced, however, a very useful speech from Mr. Churchill, who asked for more informing returns. The returns, he said, ought to distinguish between those unemployed who could be supported on an actuarial basis, and those who could not.. This would be a valuable distinction and would do something to dispel the too gloomy impression made by the present returns. We hope it would not be a preliminary, however, to more provision for the unemployed direct from the Exchequer. An impersonal central authority cannot carry on adminis- tration so watchfully as a local body which is acquainted with all the circumstances in the district.
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