Unemployment Board

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 11

Unemployment Board

gjr,—ln your issue of Saturday last there appears some references to myself, including wonderful .suggestions from Vour very able artist. At the outset, I desire to convey my special thanks to that gentleman for his excellent work, tine can appreciate the caricaturist. It is his job, and he sticks to the subject, therefore there is no need for further comment, for. although I have the strongest objection to sitting on the top of a chimney stack or indeed a chimney of any kind, it would be foolish on my part to attempt to cheek the mental flights of fancy peculiar to the artistic mind; indeed, I would be the hist in the world to hinder the artist from plying his sickly trade, so to speak. ’My objection is to another artist who bungled his job. viz., my friend Mr. Bromlev. and this bungling is no doubt the result of a man not sticking to bis profession. Mr. Bromley can follow the roie of politician in a most excellent manner indeed, but. when he claims to - lie able to fill the role of the present Government, the Welfare League and the executive of Ihe Wellington trades Council all in one act, I am of the opinion that he is bringing art down to a very low level and playing the very devil with stagecraft, and as I have a great regard for the political artist 1 regret very much the gentleman’s indiscretion. The New Zealand Alliance of Labour advertised a meeting to be held at the Trades Hall. The executive of the Trades and Labour Council, the Government representatives and representatives of the Welfare League were invited to attend and hear the verdict of those attending the meeting on the question of the right of the workers to select their own representatives on the Unemployment Board. The New Zealand Alliance of Labour is paying the hall rent and for most of the advertising of the meeting, and has its own speakers to put its policy before the public, but Mr. Bromley desires the meeting to bo banded over to him in order, we presume, to put the case for the Welfare League, the Government, and the Trades ana Labour Council. The organisation which I represent refuses to be a party to such crude Gilbertianism. Should Mr. Bromley desire to convince the workers that they have no right to select their own representatives on the. Unemployment Board and that they should confer that right on the Minister of Labour, and that he (Mr. Bromley) is the only person who can represent them, then we have no objection in the world to bis arranging a meeting and attempting to convert the workers to that opinion.—l am, etc., JAS. ROBERTS. Secretary, N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Wellington, November 22. Sir, —I wish to correct a mistake in your report of a motion moved by myself at the meeting called by the Alliance of Labour on Sunday night. Ihe resolution which was passed without dissent was as follows: “That this meeting repudiate Messrs. O. Mcßrine and W. Bromley in accepting nomination to the board, us the Act itself is of no to the workers of New Zealand. —1 am. etc.. ■ - K. EVANS. Wellington, November 24.