“SOLVING” UNEMPLOYMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1934, Page 7

“SOLVING” UNEMPLOYMENT

GERMANY’S NEW SCHEME SINGLE MEN SACKED [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] 1 (Recd. August 31, Noon.) BERLIN, August 30. All unmarried men under 25, employed by private and public firms and the Public Service, must give place to older persons, particularly with families. Work will be found for those displaced in labour services, domestic and agricultural posts.' The State is paying a subsidy of fifty marks a month to firms employing men over forty after long unemployment, as compensation for the’r inferior efficiency, and is also paying a subsidy of three hundred marks yearly foi; six years to provide houses for married agricultural labourers. The decree regarding unmarried persons will cause one and a-ha If million to lose their jobs on October 1. By that time, the firms must have supplied the Government with all details of the men and women affected. NAZI CLAIM DISPROVED. LONDON, August 30. The “Daily Herald” says: The order illustrates the myth of the Nazi claims that it has solved unemployment. The move is mainly an economy one. Those married with families will cease to be chargeable on the unemployment funds, and will have to exist on the salaries previously paid to single persons under 25. Government unemployment figures thus show a sudden decrease of over a million, while farmers are forced to take unskilled workers, whom they do not want. DEBTS DEFAULT. BERLIN, August 30. Dr. Schacht, addressing the Agrarian Conference at Badeilsen, at which twenty countries, including Britain, are represented, declared that, improvement in the world’s econonvc position was possible only if Germany’s foreign creditors agreed to several years’ moratorium, thereafter reducing Germany’s debt. Political debts from the world war were disturbing factors in the world market. Germany’s’ capability to transfer, , after repaying 350 million sterling of 1250 million indebtedness was ex- , hausted. The clearing system would , merely aggravate the problem- 80l- ’ shevism would increase with the world crisis, which increasingly endangered the standard of living.

FOUR BEHEADED. BERLIN, August 30. Four were beheaded with an axe at Dortmund this morning. Two had been convicted of the murder of a Storm Trooper, and the others were convicted of robbery and murder.