UNEMPLOYMENT
SINGLE MEN'S CAMPS-
[per press association.]
CHRISTCHURCH, September 9.
A meeting of single unemployed men was held in the Trades Hall todqy. Mr R. T. Bailey, who is in charge of the Christchurch branch of the Labour Department, attended and explained the scheme for camps for unemployed meh. The following resolution was carried:—“That, after hearing the explanation of the operations and conditions for the camps for the unemployed, this meeting of single men declares the camps black.”
PROBLEM FOR N.S. WALES. SYDNEY, September 9. There is a heavy falling off in the unemployment tax collections, due to the severe retrenchment that is now being exercised in all departments of commerce and industry. The falling off has placed the Lang Government in an awkward position. The Government is faced with the problem of ah ever-increasing army of unemployed and a gradual 'drying-up of the taxation sources. The Cabinet are how considering a stiffening of the tax on wage earners such as remain in good work, and it is regarded as likely that the present tax of one shilling in the pound will be doubled on incomes of £4OO a year and over.
GERMANY’S MILLIONS. BERLIN, September 9. Germany’s unemployed in August numbered 4,195,000.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1931, Page 3
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