There is no general rule of the Society that able-bodied persons temporarily out of work shall not be assisted. The nature of the unemployment should be distingushed. [1] No Charity can meet the case of periodic want of employment due to recurrent causes. In exceptional cases help may be given which will avert the reccurence, but "efficacy of any such help is practically limited by the amount of individual influence and personal supervision forthcoming". [2] when the distress is caused by some temporary and definite cause, exeptional means of tiding over the emergency must be sought, and there is a large scope for charitable help, according to the character and capascity of the individual. [3] The distress may be due to permanent failure of some source of employment, in which case any form of charitable relief on the spot is mischievous as keeping labour where it is not needed; the remedy in migration and emigration. The success of any attempt to help must depend upon the nature of the people themselves. They may be:

1. thrifty and careful men, in which case almost any kind of appropriate help may be successfully tried;
2. no-provident and of limited capacity; in such cases if there is a decent home help may be given under a suitable test, one form of which is to require the man to go temporarily into the workhouse while the family and home are maintained until he can get to work again;
3. there is the idle loafing class, and those brought low by vice and drink, and these should be left to the Poor Law.