AID FOR UNEMPLOYED

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 7

AID FOR UNEMPLOYED

Novel Scheme Put Forward ISSUE OF CREDIT NOTES A novel scheme for the assistance of the unemployed has been devised by the One Tree Hill Workers’ Association. Details of the proposal were made known when a deputation from the association waited upon the One Tree Hill Borough Council and asked for its support and co-operation in tne scheme. It was proposed to make a house-to-house canvass in the borough. In return for any money or goods received, the householder would be handed “a real credit note” which would be used to pay the member of the association sent along to do whatever work was required. All classes or workers —gardeners, painters, carpenters —were represented in the association, and the householder would be guaranteed a good job. The money collected would be used to buy goods at wholesale prices, and these would be handed to members in return for the credit notes. It was intended that the scheme should help unemployed of tne borough when not engaged on relief work. A number of businessmen living in the borough had shown considerable enthusiasm over the scheme.

It would be necessary for every man

to do work in some shape or form before he could benefit. All money would be paid to the association and not to the individual. It was proposed that each man should have a disc, which would be put in a bowl and drawn when work was offering. Once the disc had been drawn it would not be replaced in the bowl until all the other discs had been drawn. Thus, if there were five carpenters in the association the owner of the first disc would not have the opportunity of securing more work until Ihe other four had each had a job. The council deferred consideration of the scheme.