Excerpt from Unemployment in South Africa
The Parliament which was elected in 1915 ran its course the accompaniment of profiteering and lack-renting.
With the close of the Great War unemployment, which during the war was infinitesimal, again began to assume big proportions, and the returned soldiers found that, the solemn pledges notwithstanding, they were not secure from unemployment, and they considerably swelled the ranks of the unemployed.
The discontent consequent upon the above phenomena was such that, despite the frantic efforts of the Government and the Unionist Tarty to raise false issues, in the new Parliament elected on the 10th March, 1920, the South African Labour Party was returned with a membership of twenty-one; and, for the first time in its history, found itself in a position to influence legislation.
The Government, realising the temper of the country, immediately introduced measures for the limitation of runs and profiteering.
An effort by the South African Labour Party to bring before Parliament the question of unemployment failed, the Speaker ruling that the matter was not of sufficient public importance.
The pressure which was brought 10 hear upon the Government by the Labour Movement, political and industrial, forced it to announce a Commission to enquire into and report upon the following matters: -
I. The extent of unemployment; the cause this unemployment; and the best method of dealing with the same.
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