IN GOOD FAITH

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 12

IN GOOD FAITH

MR. BROMLEY'S ATTITUDE

Mr. W. Bromley, president of the Trades and Labour Council, made the following statement to a "Post" reporter to-day in reference to lust night's meeting:— "The resolution which I moved as an amendment to that suggested by the Mayor, as explained at the meeting, was not for the purpose of defeating the object for which the meeting had been called, but was put forward in good faith and under instructions from the Trades and Labour Council as an alternative method of raising the money and providing employment, to that of depending entirely upon subscriptions from the public. "It was known to me before I moved the motion that it would not be possible for a rate to be struck immediately to raise the necessary funds, but i was thought that there was sufficient money already earmarked for unemployment in the exchequer of the council to keep works going sufficient to employ a much larger number of the present unemployed during the winter, and that the finances could be rectified when the rates were next struck. However, the Mayor refused to accept motion in its entirety because of this one fault. The first part of the motion is, nevertheless, very helpful towardsj solving the problem if acted upon." "It is to be regretted that the meeting voted against the Mayor's motion when there was no alternative before it, and a number of the genuine | unemployed waited on mo at tho office this morning to suggest that it might be made clear that the amplification of this was not understood. Further, they want to dissociate themselves from the meeting, which was held outside after the Mayor's meeting dispersed, at which.suggestions were made which would not meet with the approval of 3 per cent, of the unemployed. I. should be pleased if publicity were given to this fact, as there appears to be an impression that there is some connection between the amendment moved by myself, the defeating of the Mayor's motion, and the meeting outside after the real meeting dispersed.

"Personally, I still think that the finance to provide employment for the unemployed should be raised through the ordinary channels for raising -public finance, but I regret that ,tho move made by the Mayor came to such an untimely termination, and trust that even now he will take some steps to call together a committee similar to the one which did > such good work on a previous occasion, and will do whatever he can to provide the wherewithal to put additional work in hand for the unemployed.''