Baby Dole

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. Agonized Liberal and Conservative editors cried that the measure as proposed would enormously increase the dole for British taxpayers, "threaten the sanctity of the home, and put a premium upon promiscuity."

Obedient to the Trade Union Congress the Labor party, according to announcements last week, will debate the baby dole" at their October caucus.

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