NOT OUT OF WORK

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 36, 11 August 1921, Page 8

NOT OUT OF WORK

POSITION REGARDING LABOURERS.

When there is said to be » great deal of unemployment in the city, it is somewhat interesting to learn that few members of the Wellington Builders and General Labourers', Union are heard to, be searching for work. The membership of the Union is appro^bnately 400, and the secretary (Mr. J. M. Campbell) infomed a Poet reporter to-day that, from the facts as known by him, all the members were fully employed with the exception of ,'one young man whose Bervices had been dispensed with last Saturday. Mr. Campbell stated that the largest number of unemployed labourers he had had on his books at any one time this winter did, not exceed 20. "So far an this Union is'concerned," remarked Mr. Campbell, "there is nothing to indicate that unemployment is more acute this \?inter, than in the corresponding period in pre-war years. In winter time, there is always a certain class of labourer out of employment, usually men hot able to cope with the work required of them by builders and contractors, but in the summer these men find work in freezing works and shearing 'sheds."