THE UNEMPLOYED

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 January 1932, Page 7

THE UNEMPLOYED

CANADA'S METHODS GROUP ASSOCIATIONS NO POLITICS ALLOWED CFer Press Aseociation). Dunedin, Jan. 25. In Dunedin Is jllr. F. GeJdes, a of the West Coast, who since the war had been living in Canada. Mr. Geddes is interested in helping to solve problems with which the Unemployed are faced, and he outlined some verp practical schemes which have been adopted in Canada. Under the Canadian system all the unemployed formed thmselves into associations embracing districts or provinces, as the ease might be. The associations were non-political and non-sectarian and were aimed solely at helping to ease distress by providing work wherever i>ossible and by raising funds for relief purposes. Anyone who ventured to express a political opinion at a meeting run tiie risk of having his membership suspended for a certain period. Under the guidance of an efficient organiser, Carnivals, gymkhanas and bazaars, all <m a large scale, were organised, and by these methods big stung for the purchase of food were raised. FOR THE CHILDREN ..The Mayor and Mayoress of Dunedin are launching a scheme under which a number of city children of unemployed will be given ah opportunity of spending a holiday in the country. The children will be transferred free to their hosts’ l homes.