UNEMPLOYMENT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT

UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD’S •5. . -'''GRANT.

' - SUBSIDY SUGGESTED TO -. OF FARMERS.

i . .'(Press Association,) *t - .-RAWERAr Dec- 4. 1 . A suggestion by Mr. P. S. Hickey, Ppunake, for the: use of the Unemployment Board. Fund for farm, labor 2 Avasr-ehdofsed' hy.:the South; Taranaki executive of the Union, to- .■ r . .• Mr. Hickey proposed that: farmers shqiild form groups to obtain the board’s grant for the required number" from . the unemployed, provide acCona'modation . and engage men purely reproductive .work. He contended that the hoardV would thhAlioip"to‘increase tho production of primary industries, wljiqh were now faced' with the pfospect'^ considerable decline, owing ° inability . of farmers to at' the present .Tow. prices qt pioduco i The meeting' was of opinion m scheme was highly profpraWe to belief '' Work usually tiWited f essential purposes, and _ recommend the scheme t° ‘ - n qpd place 'it before the Dominion execntiyc'.

COMMITTEE SET UP AT NEW

(Press Association.) NEW TLYAI.OrTH, Dec. 5 \ “local committee ’ under tme Unemployment Act was set UP tonight at a conference of ,Aele^ate representing all local bodies , ‘ sociations concerned on >orth la anaki The draft set of resolutions for thb administration of/unemployment activities under the . Unemploymen Board was adopted- wit-h some amendments. Resolutions, had been submitted to the-Minister iollmimg a conference with him at Ne . mouth and,/, in last night’s meeting, the Hon. Smith stated that the resohitmns would probably be accepted as a mo del set. 'Applications tor copies had been received from various parts ol the Dominion. ' ■

seamen want work RATIONED.

mp \ by Elec. Tel. -Copyright) ' SYDNEY. Dec. 5. The Seamen’s Do ion at Sydney passed a resolution in favor of rationing, for instance where a man lias been in employment continuously on nnv’ vessel, sav, for six months, -he must stand aside for an unemployed member of the union. A significant fact is that the meeting was attended overwhelmingly bv idle seamen. ‘ The shipowners regard the resolution as a. contravention of the award,

FIRST CLASH

U S CONGRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

HOSTILITY TO PRESIDENT’S RELIEF PLAN.

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Dec. 5, S p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dee. o. The first serious dissension in the present session of Congress occurred upon the transmission by PresidentHoover of 'a 'request' for 150 million dollars- to -be appropriated immediately for unemployment relief by 1 spending it- on public works, the Uiopey-to be administered by the President. The request- was immediately attacked in both Houses, the demand being made that Congress should indicate how the money should he spent. It was intimated that an amending proposal would be introduced for the appropriation of 250 million dollars to provide work for one million men for three topion-ths -.'ton roads throughout the nation.

IDLENESS—A DANGEROUS

SURPLUS

The idleness of men who wish to (work and cannot - get work is a paralysing blight reaches not into our economics- alone, but goes, much Luther. We must learn how to deal with- this kind of surplus,V said Mr Owen D. Young, the author of the Young Plan for Reparations, in a recent speech. “If is ridiculous to speak op unemployment as .a necessary 1 condition of human society;. It is nothing more than a inaladjristment of its machinery.' It is a blot on our intelligence. It" is a drain on our sympathy. It is - a promoter of charity which affects disadvantageously both those who give and'-those 1 ; who receive. , Some day we ' shalU learn • to-do better, but we must learn it- soon.”