UNEMPLOYMENT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 129, 13 March 1935, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT.

AN INVESTIGATION. RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FORMED. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, March 12. A decision to form an Unemployment Research Association to conduct an investigation into the causes of, and the remedy for, the unemployment situation was made at a public meeting to-night. The hall was filled to capacity by an audience made up about equally of unemployed and citizens in work. The chairman was Mr J. H. Howell. Resolutions were carried "That a general increase of 10s a week be granted all men on unemployment relief or sustenance; that free milk be supplied for all families of relief workers in quantities regarded as adequate by medical authorities." A motion by Professor W. 18. Gould expressing the desirability of a comprehensive and public investigation of the unemployed problem, with the purpose of making known throughout the Dominion facts regarding unemployment, and the setting up of a research association, was carried. ,A further motion moved by the Rev. T. Fieldon Taylor and seconded by Mr W. Nash, M.P., also was carried. This urged on all sections of Parliament the forming of a comprehensive plan to place relief workers on a sound economic footing. The chairman intimated that he had' received 'a communication from Archbishop O'Shea associating himself with the objects of the meeting.