EFFORTS AT RELIEF

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 289, 2 September 1931, Page 5

EFFORTS AT RELIEF

Eastbourne Unemployed FUNDS ARE LIMITED Recently there was set up in Eastbourne a Relief of Distress Committee. The secretary is Miss E. Jackson. The committee is divided into several, subcommittees, one of the principal ones being the visiting committee. lOn the efforts of this committee depend very much the work of the other committees in seeing that no cases of acute distress go unrelieved. There has recently been purchased pairs of boots and trousers, and these are sold to m?n requiring them at about half cost price, payable in instalments. There are at present about 55 married men unemployed in the borough and 10 single men. Nearly the whole time they have been working on the sea-wall extension which now reaches to the whole length of the recreation ground. Altogether, between four and five hundred yards have been done. The cost in material has been heavy, amounting to something like £3 a yard. It is probable that the wall will not be continued much further, and that the men will be put on to some work where the cost in material will not be so high. As in the other boroughs, the Unemployment Committee is having difficulty in getting sufficient money from the Unemployment Board. The committee comprises the mayor, Mr. S. F. Fisher, the postmaster, the chairman of the works committee, the town clerk, and the Rev. W. Raine, and a representative of the unemployed. In order to give every man his due amount of work,. the committee requires about £9O a week. It only gets froin £5O to £55. It has been found necessary, therefore, to cut the four-day men down to three days, and the three-day men to two days. The single men have not been touched. is at the express wish of the married men.