UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 4

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION VIEWS.

Advocacy of an immediate increase in relief rates for all grades of work for unemployed by 10/- a week, and continuance of that

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increase until schemes are devised for the afesorp-

tip.h of unemployed in works at standard rateß of pay, was the principal of several decisions concerning

unemployment reached at the annual conference of the Municipal Association today, f. The; subject was keenly debated. It was mentioned that the cost of giving increased pay of 10/- a week would be £300»000 a year. It was slro stated, and,the statement was generally endorsed, that the Unemployment Board should

produce a statement of its expenditure showing exactly how all its great income was used. The resolutions carried were as follows :-

"That tb« executive be instructed to go into the whole question of improving conditions of the unemployed by a scheme or schemes £or providing work at standard rates of pay, the schema to be financed partly by local authorities and partly by the •' Unemployment Board, or in any other manner conceived, and that in the meantime the Unemployment Bo*rd be asked to increase the wages of all grades of workers by 10/- a we.ek."

the Minister of Internal Affairs be urged to allocate the proceeds of art unions during the winter months to the relief of distress" "That this conference recommends to the Government that Unemployed men who are ill should, on /production of medical certificates, be supported from the Unemployment funds". A remit suggesting that the Government be again urged to abolish the N0.5 scheme and to devote the money ali-ocated for it to reproductive avenues en-' . surini? full employment at standard rates of pay was referred 'to': the executive under the. terms of the motion ' previously carried - P.A.