TUC backs war savings

62 T.U.C. backs War Savings The Trades Union Congress have thrown their powerful influence into the scales in support of voluntary savings in wartime. They have issued a Declaration urging all who are able to do so to save to the utmost of their ability and to lend their savings to the Country. Here are two important statements: I. The Government has declared that new voluntary savings up to £375 accumulated during the war and invested in National Savings Certificates, Defence Bonds, subscriptions to new War Loans, or deposited in the Post Office or in the Ordinary Departments of Trustee Savings Banks, will be disregarded in calculating the means of applicants for unemployment assistance or supplementary old age pensions.