UNEMPLOYMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1934, Page 2

UNEMPLOYMENT

CHRISTCHURCH DEMONSTRATION [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 5. The unemployed of Christchurch held a mass demonstration to-day. In the procession through the main city streets 1600 men and women marched, while 3000 attended a mass meetingheld in Latimer Square. At the meeting a resolution was passed demanding that the Government provide work for unemployed at trade union rates, or, failing that, that the Sustenance Act of 1930, operate to-day to provide full sustenance; that the unemployed be paid for time lost in demonstrations; that the Seditious Laws Bill be abandoned; and that Wyvern Wilson, Magistrate at Auckland, who recently imposed the Curfew restriction on men he had convicted be withdrawn from the bench. The procession was most orderly. The Mayor, Mr D. J. Sullivan. M.P., was one of the speakers. FOREIGNERS IN FRANCE. PARIS. September 5. The Government, in reply to suggestions that foreigners should be expelled to provide more employment for Frenchmen, states that it has no intention of turning out foreigners, but that it will facilitate their voluntary departure by the provision of free tickets to the frontier, as it has done for 400.000 unemployed foreigners in the past three years. Meanwhile, the influx of foreign workers into France is being checked. Permits are being granted the entry of foreign workers only in occupations where there is no unemployment.