Captain TERRELLasked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the renewed assistance to relief works during the coming winter, he will instruct the Unemployment Grants Committee to pay special attention to the claims of the agricultural districts which are possibly, owing to incomplete record of existing unemployment, apt to he overlooked?
§ Sir A. MONDThe matter to which reference is made is being specially considered.
Captain TERRELLasked the Prime Minister whether the Cabinet Committee on Unemployment will take into special consideration the existing and anticipated unemployment in the purely agricultural districts?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe Cabinet Committee in considering the problem of unemployment will bring under review all the staple industries of the country including agriculture.