NATIONAL QUESTION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1927, Page 8

NATIONAL QUESTION

MINISTER SPEAKS OUT

LARGE NUMBER OUT OF WORK

(By Telegraph.) CSpecial to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAKD, This Day. ■ In expressing disappointment at the small attendance at the meeting of the Unemployment Committee held yesterday, the chairman, the Eev. Jasper Calder, said that he was afraid that members were disgusted with the Government for its apathy. "This is a national affair," lie declared, "and only merely political causes." HesaS%. ther, that a section of the unemployed were preparing to' give a demonstra the' Duke of York's y^ Although he would deplore any «eh rX?T, nee/. the blame ™uld b° »"wy with the Government. v'cv. r> o l'T he- P°si ticm *8 more serious than people imagine," said Mr. E. Phelan secretary of the Timber WorW t?nT\ "T-rV numl?er "gistered * t the Labour Department office gi yes " real criterion of the true position for St tut £ •W °rkerS *"• tr»d °'s not put tlieir names on the list. I have personally communicated with gation, I find that over 3000 empires