THE UNEMPLOYED.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9127, 11 June 1895, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED.

Wβ have received the following letters on the leading article which appeared in the Monday ;— TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —I have read your leader this morning with much pleasure. I admire the selfreliant common sense tone you take in dealing with the importaac question of the unemployed. Your proposal deserves support from every man earning wages, and I have much pleasure in subscribing a note towarde the fuud.—Yours, &c, Onb Who Has Been Odt Of Work And Didn't Like It. to the editor of the press, Sib, —Your leader in to-days issue on the subject of the unemployed difficulty must commend itself to all, irrespective of creed or " colour," who have given any consideration to the gravity of the proolem which now confronts us, and to assist in the solution of which we are all, individually and collectively, committed in the common iuterests of humanity. Your appeal, therefore, to the residents ot Ohriatchurch to take a practical view of the difficulty by the organization ot a public subscription to be subsidised by the local bodies in order to relieve the present pressure, will, it is hoped, meet with a prompt and hearty response ; and, on the principal of bis dat gui cito dat, no time should be lost in setting the movement going. The Christchurch Palette Club had intended very shortly giving private exhibition of sketches and studies, to which admission would have been by ticket only; but in consequence of your leader I am desired by the Committee to announoe their intentiou of throwing open the exhibition to the public and of devoting the propceds, after payment of expenses, to the fund for which you appeal. Immediate arrangements will be made for carrying out this plan, aud the time and place of exhibition will be duly notified. A similar effort by kindred institutions would, it is believed, result in the raising of a substantial sum wherewith to oommence the campaign.—Yours, "&c, W. E. Faishqlmb, Hon., Secretary and Treasurer, Chrietchurch Palette Club, At a meeting of the Avon Road Board, held yesterday, ib was decided to grant £100 for providing work for the unemployed, on the condition that the Government granted a subsidy of a similar amount. The Mayor of Linwoad, who ia desirous of obtaining > he number of unemployed in hie district, requests all men unemployed to register their names at once at the Borough Council Chambers.

(PBBSS ASSOCIATION TEI.EGBAM. DUNEDIN, June 10. The Otago Typographical Association has resolved that owing to the large number of unemployed compositors throughout the colony the Government and private employers be urged to abolish the system of overtime. The Dunedin Assembly of Knights of Labour, claiming to be the only lawfully constituted assembly in Dunedin, held an emergency meeting to-night and passed a resolution placing on record deep and nearcfelt sympathy for those out of work, and tendering grateful acknowledgements to the citizens who had so generously and magnamiupusly come forward with their private means to help to alleviate the distress. In order to give practical effect to their feeling they voted £o as a first instalment to the relief fund.