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Extra History 1916-24
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- 1Amount of TUC members2,232,000 (1913)
6,500,000 (1920) - 2Amount of union labour16% 1910
48% 1920 - 3Where were there strikes in the first half of 1919?Mines, cotton, ships, underground, police
- 4How many insured workers were unemployed by 1921?1.8 million
- 5Price of coalFell by 50% from 1920-21
- 6What was created in December 1920?The ‘Unemployment Grants Committee’
3m budget to subsidise wages - 7How many found work through the UGC by 1920-1?40,000
- 8What was reintroduced in 1925?The ‘genuinely seeking work’ test
- 9How many were denied benefit from 1921-27The amount denied trebled
- 10Who used sickness benefit to supplement income?In 1930 1/2 of working class households
- 11How much was the unemployment fund losing a week by the 1928-9 winter?£250,000
- 12How did Baldwin enter parliamentAs a tariff reformer in 1906
- 13How did he want the Tories perceived?As classless and open
Countering Labour who declared themselves as the Party for the workers - 14‘New Conservatism’Offered few answers to the problems of the 20’s
- 15Baldwin responseOften to do nothing
He always thought of the repercussions of the Party than the people involved
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