EFFECT OF THE DOLE
POSITION IN ENGLAND,
In visiting the manufacturing districts of England, Colonel A. A. Corrigan, who has just returned, was confronted with a very puzzling state. of affairs for a New Zealander, who from week to week and from month to month reads the unemployment statistics. This was particularly so when he came into close touch with manufacturers of woollen and textile gooids. 'Orders placed from\.four to six months previously remained unexecuted, and no promise: in a number of cases could be exacted as > to. whether the goods would be delivered. Yet the mills would be working on half-time or three-quarter time. When the question was put as to why they .could not speed up by bringing the miifls into full time, the answer was never convincing. Some with much indefiniteness woulcT make some reference to raw materials; sometimes it would be rates of pay; and again demands .'by labour as to hours and conditions. ; "It would appear, however," stated Colonel Corrigan, in an interview to-day, "that at ' the root of the. trouble was the existing dole to the unemployed workers. The dole appeared to influence manufacturers to the view that the larger number who were employed, and the larger number ineligible for, the dole, the better would be the position of prospective settlement and of national production. The return of what promised to be a stable Government, had occasioned great relief, and had resulted in the re-open-ing of factories which had been closed down. .■'.■"'• .■■••■ ■ .■••■'
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 8
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EFFECT OF THE DOLE
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 8
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