BAD WINTER AHEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 107, 6 May 1913, Page 7

BAD WINTER AHEAD.

TIMEI.T WORDS Or WARNING. LABOUR'S OUTLOOK IX WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) AYELLIXGTOX, this day. Several trade union secretaries, who have been asked to give an opinion upon the prospects for local uuskilled workers during the coming winter, take a pessimistic view. Mr. •!«'. J. Kennedy (secretary of the Building labourers' Union) states that he had some 20 callers before noon, and lie could not place, any of them. Some new arrivals from Home were of the number, and they were advised to try Auckland, where "trade is brisker. Practically nothing is be.my done in the suburbs, and within the" last fortnight close on a score of men finished up at a big new wool store at Kaiwarra.

Mr. M. J. Reardon (secretary of the General Labourers' Union) agreed with several other union officials that there is a hard winter ahead. He had noticed 1G unemployed men that morning on hie way to the office. "Already," he said, "the pincli is being felt most keenly by the casual labouring class. That is why our people are so anxious that large employers like the Corporation shall endeavour, as far as possible, to minimise the evil of unemployment by finding continuous work for as many men as possible. Quite a number of men have told mc recently they have done little or no work for the past couple of months."