THE UNEMPLOYMENT QUESTION

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1909, Page 3

THE UNEMPLOYMENT QUESTION

I FEWER CALLERS AT TRADES [BT IKLSOP U'H— ITKSS ASSOCIATION 1 CIIUISTCJIUBCH, 10th July. At the Tiades Mall to-day it was reported that there had been few callers It is stated that so far the. applications received for workers would have been made in the ordinary course of events to the men themselves. The required work to be done was necessary, and would have been done if there were no unemployed difficulty; the labour would have been procured in the ordinary way. Inere had been no work offered of a character out of the ordinary for the purpose of relieving the unemployed. The latest posted list at the City Council offices has had a number of names added to it, bringing the total up to 4V>. \t tt 19 have work offe red them. Mr. W. Aiinson, who was chairman of the Canterbury Conciliation Board, and who holds that position till his term of omce expires, was waited upon recently by an unemployed bootmaker, who had had two or three days' work from the City Council, but who was found unable to earn the full rate of wages airl was asked to get a permit. The union declined to give him a permit, and ho applied to Mr. Minson for one, at the same time telling Mr. Minson that he had a wife and five children, all the children being ill with measles. Mr Minson had intended considering the man s_ application to-day, but in the meantime the City Council authorities, I on learning of the man's necessitous condition, have taken him on at the lull rate thus getting over the difficulty created by the man's inability to cet a permit. ' fe *h TI £* Pa £ lterß ', Union have offei>G d to »n ♦ %> C ? mn \ ». subsidy of £ for £ up to £52 for painting work put in hand by the council during the present period of slackness, on condition that nnem- I ployed unionists get preference of employment. This subsidy is {„ ndditi™ unio preVlOlls s " bs » r ly granted by the !