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purchase of lands
previous years).
and buildings, and also, from 1933-34, of sums to cover
Millions of zloty
1929- 30 357-1
1930- 31 259-5
1931- 32
1932- 33
1933- 34
1934- 35
Total.
125.0
86.0
75-o
70.0
972.6
the deficit of
As regards the report as a whole, certain sums may appear both in the report on the
Labour Fund and in the list of the various categories of works; the Labour Fund, indeed,
frequently finances works undertaken by State administrations.
PUBLIC WORKS CARRIED OUT WITH THE ASSISTANCE
OF THE LABOUR FUND.
I. Object and Scope of the Labour Fund.
The Labour Fund is a State institution, created in virtue of the Law of March 16th,
1:933, which provides that:
“ The purpose of the Labour Fund is to supply work or means of livelihood for
persons without work and without other resources, chiefly by the carrying-out 01
public works or works of public utility.
The same law provides also that:
“ The Labour Fund shall achieve its object:
“ (a) By collecting and distributing funds and contributions in kind;
“(b) By taking the initiative and collaborating in the promotion of schemes
for public works or works of public utility, and also of any other works of con¬
siderable importance from the standpoint of the reduction of unemployment,
“(c) By financing works;
“ (d) By taking measures to increase the number of persons having an
occupation ;
“ (e) By taking measures of all kinds to procure an independent livelihood
for the persons mentioned in Article 1, and by collaborating in such measures,
“ (f) By supplying, so far as this is indispensable, either directly or through
the social organisations, immediate assistance for the persons mentioned in
paragraph 1 who are not in receipt of any other form of assistance.
Public works are thus the chief but not the sole object of this institution. They
absorbed 58% of the total expenditure for the budgetary year 1933-34. and 78% of
such expenditure during the first eleven months of I934"35- . .
Apart from public works, the Labour Fund has given immediate relief m the form of
food and fuel to the most destitute unemployed persons and their families; it has organised
the work of intellectual workers, created individual gardens for the unemployed, etc.
These activities have, however, been of secondary importance, and are declining.1
1 See Table II.