AMERICA'S IDLE.
LABOUR'S REMEDIAL PLAN. ' NEW YORK, October C. Tlio United States Labour Federation at its convention at Boston submitted a report on a plan for remedying unemployment. It asserted tlie need and desirability of financing the mass purchasing power of the wage-earners. Those who were rendered idle in the first half of 1930 by business depression, said the report, lost wages amounting to £240,000,000. Had they been employed they would have created wealth totalling more than that figure. The plan recommended nine proposals, including the creation of a national system of Federal and State employment exchanges, a reduction i the hours of labour, the introduction of a five-day week and the institution of a system of vocational training and retraining.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1930, Page 7
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