In June 1919, the Labour Party again considered at its Annual Conference the question of unemployment, and passed a resolution that full and adequate maintenance should be granted by the Government, through the Trade Unions concerned, for unemployed persons, mothers with dependent children and unable to work, juveniles leaving school and becoming unemployed below the age of eighteen, women receiving training under the Government’s training schemes, and women whose out-of-work donation had ceased and who had not secured suitable work from the Labour Exchanges. The Resolution of September 1919 Again, in September 1919, the Trades Union Congress passed a resolution affirming the right of every member of the community to work or to the receipt of maintenance, and accordingly called upon the Government to regulate national and local authorities’ work, and to organize schemes of “socially necessary” work so as to provide employment, and, failing that, to provide adequate maintenance for all workers who could not find suitable employment, and facilities for training while they were out of work. This resolution contained this interesting sentence: “It deplored the inaction of the Government during the past year which had wasted the resources of the nation by allowing hundreds of thousands of willing workers to remain in a state of enforced idleness at a time when the needs of the world called imperatively for increased production.” The decline in trade and failure of demand for commodities first appeared in the summer of 1920, and gradually increased in severity as that year went on. The Recommendations of the Joint Committee on Cost of Living, September 1920 In September 1920, a Joint Committee on the Cost of Living was appointed by the Labour and Co-operative movements. That Committee made certain recommendations which were not original but a mere reiteration of matters which the Government had previously indicated were of prime importance in connection with the restoration of international trade. The measures which this Committee claimed to be essential for the revival of industry and restoration of trade were as follows: (1) The re-establishment of international peace; (2) The definite fixing of war indemnities at reasonable amounts; (3) Rehabilitation of currencies; (4) In countries where a return to the gold standard was impracticable, the establishment of a new parity of exchange; (5) The exchange of goods between different countries by barter pending re-establishment of the machinery of exchange; (6) An international loan by the League of Nations to enable impoverished countries to resume normal production. But there was nothing in this programme which was not at this time well under the consideration of the Government. Vote of Censure in Parliament, October 1920 On October 21, 1920 (see _Parliamentary Debates_, Vol. 133, 1115), the Labour Party unsuccessfully moved a vote of censure in the following terms: