UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 19327, 13 August 1926, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT

FEW MEN BEING PLACED There wore nine additional registrations yesterday afternoon and four this morning at tho Labor Department’s Unemployment Bureau, the total on the register now being 284. One or two more men are being sent to irrigation works in Central Otago, and two men who missed the train yesterday will leave on Monday. There is no other work in view at the present, no word having been received from the Public Works Department in regard to the placing of more men. “ I do not think the position is easing a great deal,” a Government official stated to-day, “but now that all tho freezing works have closed down and no other works are likely to close, I do not regard it as likely that the position will be very greatly accentuated by tbo influx of more men on the Labor market. The building trade is fairly brisk Hist now, and according to a Trades Hall official few skilled men belonging to it are out of work. Plasterers, in particular, are experiencing a very busy time, the average rate of pay being £1 a day. At a meeting of the Otago Operative Plasterers’ Union last night it was decided to wire the Otago members of Parliament asking them to support the Unemployed Workers Bill, introduced by Mr P. Fraser.