NO SOLUTION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 138, 24 March 1939, Page 8

NO SOLUTION

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM. TRADES UNTON CONCLUSION. LONDON, March 2. That there is no cause for and no solution of unemployment is the conclusion arrived at by the economic committee of the Trades Union Congress in a survey of the problem which has caused consternation among Labour leaders to whom the committee’s report has been communicated. The industrial correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says: “Leaders are anxious to secure a redrafting, if not suppression of the report. “The committee infers with unusual candour that the .problem should not be a shuttle-cock for politicians and that merely to attribute the cause of unemployment to capitalism is out of date and irresponsible and that a cure cannot necessarily be found by by orthodox and rigid Socialist theories. “The report,” adds th'e correspondent, “was prepared on instructions from the Trades Union Congress at its September meeting, to ‘bring the Government’s attention to the Labour movement’s proposal for a national planning board immediately to survey the situation and prepare plans for the development of the country’s resources and better economic equipment.’ ‘The economic committee consists largely 1 of industrial leaders, noted for their realism and abhorrence of political theorising. “The report has aroused such controversy that the Trades Union Congress is being specially summoned on March 23.” The “News-Chroniclo” says the report is tantamount to a recommendation to Labour to settle down and work out less academic proposals and that several members of the general council of Congress believe that adoption of the report would lead to a. serious clash with the Parliamentary Labour Party.