BELIEF FOR UNEMPLOYED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 8

BELIEF FOR UNEMPLOYED

(To the Editor.) Sir, —A statement on the question o£ in* employment, handed to you by four Wet lington Labour members of Parliament^ which appears in your issue to-day,, seem* an attempt to take credit for" the proposals of the Government for early relief of unemployment. "During the present session, as in previous years," reads tha statement, "the Labour Party has coastatftly and consistently (sic) Hammered away at the urgent necessity for the Government to grapple with tie problem'of unemployment," and again: "This- promise, though long overdue, is the best opportunity offered them to get employment.". It must be obvious to the discerning reader, first that the Government, in deciding to move for the relief of unemployment, is not influenced by any "hammerings" of .the Labour Party, as the relief of unemployment formed portion of the platform of the United Party; second, that any comprehensive scheme for the amelioration of the lot of the unemployed is not 1 to be produced overnight, and that, as in point of fact is the case, much careful investigation and preparation must ba given to the subject before any pronouncement is made. The United Government nas just completed its ninth month of office, and is not yet through its first session, yet it has grappled with a problem which for years the previous Government refused to face In the circumstances it must be admitted that the Government"* action can scarcely be termed "overdue* Aiso, _ w hile it may be considered that there is not great credit attaching to thia decision of the Government, asfby thS it is merely fulfilling its election pledge* . there certainly is no credit whatever dv« to the Labour Party, to whose speechai ??f = ¥ 8 *P, v*in for any construct!™ wl-l anf e Ptc r: ad "** °£ ™***4

A. E. DAVY,