LABOUR AT AUCKLAND
NOT OBSTRUCTIONAL
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Although the unemployment levy is not popular with Labour, unionists in Auckland, on the whole, are favourable to tho legislation passed last session. Oscar M'Brine, who was a member of the Unemployment Committe-e, said: "We are not prepared to pull down the house because wo cannot have the rooms furnished to our taste." They realised that the present position was grave, and they believed that unemployment was not a passing phase, but a permanent feature of modern society, needing permanent machinery to deal with it. As everyone had to contribute, all would give attention to the unemployment question, which in the past, had been the concern only of a few. He pointed out that the Unemployment Board would be the driving power of the Act. It would bo assisted by a local committee, probably similar to the Repatriation Committee. The Unemployment Board differed from similar boards elsewhere in that its primary function was to supply and foster employment. Elsewhero the machinery was to provide relief, and it usually stopped at that.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 12
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LABOUR AT AUCKLAND
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 12
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