CARPENTERS OUT OF WORK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 269, 6 August 1908, Page 7

CARPENTERS OUT OF WORK.

THE RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE ; ASKED. A meeting of between thirty and forty unemployed carpenters was held a£ the Trades Hall yesterday afternoon, Mr. E Carter occupying tlio chair.

The following motion was carried unanimously That, in view of the largo amount of work contemplated by'tho Government, including the completion 'of unfinished buildings and the orection of new ones, , 011 the, Main Trunk Railway, as shown by tho report of the Chief Engineer, this meeting of unemployed carpenters ■ ■ antl joiners strongly urges the Govern-, ment to tako immediate steps, to push on with this and other works for the pur-- . pos9 of-relieving' tho prevailing lack of employment for carpenters and joiners throughout tho Dominion., Sir. G. H. Lightfoot said that it was tho duty of the Government to provide work if possible. The Government wero only making | excuses for tho sake of excuses. A.speaker, said that carpenters were comingjinto tho country, and they could not emphasise tho point too strongly that peoplo were deluded by tho highly-coloured advertisements at Homo. In reply to a question by tho Chairman, the majority expressed themselves willing to go anywhere if they could get Work. Complaint was made at tho'delay of the Government in r.iding tho unemployed. Tho Chairman expressed tho opinion that if tho. members of the Government only stirred themselves they could find enough work for all tho unemployed carpenters in the Dominion. They must demand from tho Government tho right to employment; when they did that, they would get it,'not before. "It seems to me," he added, "that so mo of you' carpenters are too rcspoctablo altogether.- Youaro t-oo law-abiding. Mr. Lightfoot mentioned that carpcnters camo at tho rato of about six per Home boat. . • Tho Chairman said that ho wont to sof the Minister for Public Works, and aftef waiting for nearly a fortnight ho was toR that work would bo found for three or foui; men in a month's time. Cabinet could not realise the position, aud they wero tired 01 begging at their feet. The" Labour Department said that 110 men were out-of work, but hundreds of men were so disgusted with tl>» Department that they did not go near it.

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