The proposals of this Memorandum were in advance of previous recommendations. To enable local authorities to execute public works, legislation was demanded to facilitate the acquisition of the necessary land. The Government was to use for national purposes the 200 national factories, but for what purpose the Memorandum is eloquently silent. A systematic plan of short-time with full wages was to be introduced for a certain limited period in Government dockyards, arsenals and factories, when the final adjustment to peace-time conditions was taking place. To prevent an overstocked adult labour market there was to be no employment, partial or otherwise, of children under the school-leaving age, which was to be raised to sixteen, and only part-time employment up to a maximum of a 30-hour week for young people between sixteen and eighteen years, the balance of whose normal working week was to be devoted to physical and technical training and education. Twenty thousand additional scholars were to be trained as school teachers, and additional bursaries granted to the secondary schools, universities and technical colleges for pupils from the elementary schools, who would otherwise go into industry. Overtime was to be prohibited, and an 8-hour day to be imposed by statute. The Memorandum claimed maintenance, apart from the Poor Law, for all persons who were unemployed and for whom no suitable work could be found. Where persons were entitled to unemployment benefit from the Trade Unions they should receive it and in addition be paid unemployment benefit under the Unemployment Insurance Acts; the rate of benefit, under those Acts, to be increased to a sum to be fixed in regard to the prevailing cost of living. Unemployed persons who did not receive benefit under the Acts, and those who had received it, but had run out of it, should be paid maintenance up to a total sum per week fixed in due relation to the cost of living. Trade Unions paying unemployment benefit were to receive a Government subsidy. In addition the Memorandum called for wide extension of the National Insurance Act, 1911, and for abolition of its restriction to a limited number of trades, and also for amendment of the National Insurance (Part II) (Munition Workers) Act, 1916, which brought in munition workers and persons engaged in metal and chemical industries under the Act of 1911, and created, it was said, invidious distinctions, as for example, between a worker who would be insured if engaged on a particular article needed for use in war, but who would not be insured if engaged on the same type of article when it was needed for ordinary commercial use. The Memorandum also called for amendment of the Act of 1916 in regard to its application to women, and for the extension generally to women of the National Unemployment Insurance Scheme. The London Resolution of 1918