UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1930, Page 3

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

R.S.A. PROPOSALS. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, July 22. The new Bill which it is proposed to introduce into Parliament for the alleviation of unemployment was read to-night at a meeting of the Executive of the Dunedin R.S.A., and after a full discussion, the following motion was unanimously carried: —“yhat the Dunedin R.S.A. appreciates the fact that the recognising the seriousness of unemployment among returned soldiers, has suggested the appointment of one of the New Zealand R.S.A. members to the proposed Unemployment Board.. However, the Dunedin Association desires to know, before any steps are taken in this direction, if and how soon the Government proposes to put into operation the recommendations of the Rehabilitation Commission, because the question of properly rehabilitating 5000 men dealt with by the Commission is more pressing. Moreover, the suggested Soldiers’ Civil Re-establish-ment League would be more fitted to deal with all returned men, both (a) physically fit unbmployed, and (b) men suffering disability. It is suggested that on a proportionate basis, any such proposed Unemployment Board could allocate funds to the League to disburse to physically fit returned men unemployed under the Unemployed Act. This suggestion is put forward because it. is felt sure that in many cases returned men physically fit are unemployed because of some result of war service.”

LABOUR CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, July 22. Delegates from all of the Industrial Unions throughout New Zealand are being invited to meet in conference at Wellington on July 30 to discuss the Government’s unemployment relief proposals at present before the House, and to consider the recommendations of the Commission which recently held an inquiry into the Workers’ Compensation Act. The Conference is being convened by the New Zealand Alliance of Labour, and is expected to be attended by about one hundred delegates. It will take place in the Trades Hall, and is expected to last about four days. Trade unions, whether affiliated to the Alliance or not, are being invited. HOMELAND IMPROVEMENTS. , LONDON, July 22. The Daily Express’s . lobby correspondent reports that the expert advisers to the Cabinet Committee on Unemployment indicate that the end of the great -slump is in sight with the possibility of an early trade revival. UNEMPLOYED “STRIKE” SYDNEY, July 23. About seven hundred men engaged on unemployed relief work, have gone on strike, as a protest against the new rates and conditions for their employment. Communist agitators are responsible for the stoppage. LATER. The unemployed .who down tools at the -suburban relief works agreed to resume after hearing the Minister of Labour’s reply to their representatives regarding the conditions. It is understood, however, that if the demands are not met satisfactorily all relief works may be declared “black” by the “unemployed workers’ movement.