Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson and Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law.

  • Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09
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1909
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Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson and Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE ii.—London Borough Councils 71 [57] Relief works put in hand for many years up to 1905 71 [87] „ „ diminished after passage of Unemployed Workmen's Act - - - 71 [<?7] Two cases of overlapping 72 [88] Difficulty of investigation by the borough councils 72 [88] and (b) Provincial councils and distress committees 72 [88] Mayor's funds frequent 72 [88] More co-operation between various agencies than in London . . . . 73 [89] Amalgamation of distress committees and labour exchanges 73 [89] Investigation rarely thorough 74 [00] Usual ground of selection, destitution and a large family ----- 74 [00] Work generally not for a continuous pariod of several weeks, as in London - - 7-1 [90] .—Trade Unions 75 [91] Unemployed benefit paid by larger unions and those of highly skilled trades - 75 [91] Travelling bjnafit for men for whom places are found by their union in new localities 75 [91] Amounts paid in unemployed benefit by 100 principal unions, betwoenl895 and 190-i 76 [92] ., „ per head in 100 unions and in certain trades among them - 76 [92] „ ,, compared with membership 76-77 [92-93] Mr. Charles Booth's analysis of unemployed benefit paid by London Society of Compositors 77 [93] Many trade unions do not pay unemployed benefit 78 [94-] Report of Conference of General Federation of Trade Unions with Committee of Trade Union Congress and Labour Members of Parliament (Jan. 1905) - 78 [94] Causes discussed and suggestions made for diminishing unemployment - - 79 [95] Report of Parliamentary Committee to the Trade L^nion Congress (Sept. 1906) - 79 [9o] Claim to have effected alteration of record papers 80 [96] This alteration inconsistent with previously expressed trade union principles - 80 [96] The best arrangements—those made by the unions themselves - - - - 80 [96] The question of unions of unskilled workers gl [97] Child labour and extension of education 81 \97] Future policy—what is it to be ? 81 [97] Quarterly report of General Federation of Trade Unions (1906), wages, regulation of hours of labour, and distribution of work ------- 82 [98] i). i.—The Salvation Army scheme (1890) 83 [99] No statistics furnished of the working of the scheme . . . - . g3 [gg] The Army weak in East London and their independent work small - - - 83 [99] The Hadleigh Farm Colony 83 [99] Work in connection with other societies on business lines .... 83 [99~\ „ „ „ Poor Law Guardians (Stepney) - - - - 84 [1001 „ „ „ emigration 84-85 [100-101] The ' Elevator ' workshops and shelters 85-86 [101-102] The labour bureau - - . -• 86 [102] ii. —The Church Army 86 [102] The labour tents and homes 86-87 [102-103] Summary of cases assisted in 1905 87 [103] The general plan of the work - 87-88 [103-104] Wood chopping and paper sorting 88 [IO4] Particulars of labour homos (London) - - - - - - - -89 [105] Emigration 89 [105] Particulars of home land colonies 89-90 [105-106] Considerable activity in Manchester, Newcastle, and other provincial towns - 90 [106] iii. —The Jewish Boards of Guardians 91 [107] Their work in London 91 [i^?/ ]. „ „ Manchester 91-92 [107-108], iv. —Newspaper funds 92-93 [108-1091 Methods of Daily Mirror 92 [108} V.—Various agencies recei%-ing grants from the Queen's Fund 93 [109] Little information as to special local relief funds - - - - - - 93 [109]