LABOUR IN QUEENSLAND
REPLY TO SIR JOHN SIMON.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
(Received 19th July, 12.30 p.m.)
BRISBANE, This Day
The Minister-of Labour describes Sir John Simon's statement' in the House of Commons, cabled yesterday, regarding the Queensland unemployed, as ridiculous in the- extreme. The registered unemployed in Queensland at present amounted, to 1.6 per cent, of the total employable men in the State, while Britain's percentage was 10.9 per cent.
Sir John Simon, in the course of the debate in the House of Commons on the Labour motion for the abolition of the capitalist system, quoted Queensland, where the Labour Party had introduced a wide schema of nationalisation, and the railways, after five years, showed a deficit of one and a half millions, while in 1921 Queensland -had more unemployment than in any other country in the world.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 16, 19 July 1923, Page 7
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