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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
[Reciprocity of Out-of-work Allowance]
Reciprocity of Out-of-work Allowance.—Any movement which has for its object the greater cementation of the trade in these colonies should have the approval and support of the affiliated societies. Reciprocity of out-of-work allowance is a move in this direction, and, as such, claims attention. The Council are not prepared at the present moment to submit a scheme for a general out-of-work fund, but are of opinion that such a fund would be of advantage to the trade. At the present time two or three societies have an unemployed fund, under which unemployed members get a certain amount of relief under certain conditions, and it is suggested that these funds should be general and reciprocal. Within the knowledge of the Council, the number of unemployed is annually increasing in these colonies, and it might well be made an object of the Union to relieve such through the various societies. At the present time it is only the desire of the Council to bring the matter prominently before societies, but when the time is ripe they will lay before them a scheme for their approval and adoption for the carrying out of the proposition.