CURRENT PROBLEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 45, 21 August 1931, Page 9

CURRENT PROBLEMS

NATIONAL UNDERSTANDING

f• A resolution pledging the Ne)vZea;cturers.J Federation to lend All''.:po's3ible aid' jTi' ther creation and iintlerstanding of problems of "all sections of the community was carried at the Manufacturers' Conference today. • ..■■ ■ ':■!'.' '■■■;.:' '

On the motion of Mr; J. T. Spears, the new president, it was resolved:— ",This confer^nca highly comniends the-Iconstructive- proposals advanced by L Mr r ,jW,... J., Eolson in, his '. presidential -..address to"the Farmers f Union, nEtmelj^: i-J£irst r a ■ nationa.l understanding;, see--spnd, the subordinating, of all other tissues to this one; "third, the assent .of allsections: to:the adoption of a definite objectivoj! and this conference hereby resdives-to lend all possible aid in creating and. maintaining national understanding and general appreciation of tpie'iprjoblems; of all^sections. of the.community, and in the formulation of a definite process of 'uplift, for all industries. "

The confcrcnci! also carried the.fol-' lowingfresolutioß,' dealing with ,the' Unemployment Act-—.

"The Unemployment Act, due to the unprecedented, severity of the economic i depression, and particularly due to the" temporary inability of industries to' ■iprovide .adequate employment, is ac..cejpted a,s a necessary protection against undue .distress and hardship. "It is, 'however,' deemed "to be without eura■'tivb possibilities, and should be abandoned as soon as possible in favour of; <more constructive issues." : '