RELIEF OF WORKLESS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12867, 22 May 1936, Page 3

RELIEF OF WORKLESS

FUIITHERc£2,SOO,OOO NEEDED MINISTERS DENY HAVING DONE LITTLE “DEPEND ON ME” SAYS MR SAVAGE (Press Association.) WELDING TON. May 21. That approximately £2,500.000. in addition to the ordinary revenue from unemployment taxation, would ho devoted to the relief of unemployment, was the announcement made liy the Minister of Labor, the Hon. IT. T. Armstrong, today, when replying to a deputation from the national unemployed w leers’ movement, which interviewed the Government. The Minister also used some plain and emphat-’c language in replying to a complaint that l’ttle or nothing had been done in the way, of rel-'erv-ing the* plight of the unemployed since the Labor Government tooth office. Mr A. Andrews, of Palmerston North, complained that although prior to the election the Labor party liadi protested against the means test, yet relief workers were still recurred to l fill in forms. Mr Armstrong replied that many objectionable ones Horn- bad been removed from the two-monthlv form and the half-yearly form was to bo modified. The Prime Minister, the Rt. How. Mi. .T. Savage pointed l out that there End to. he some oheclc on a man’s statement.. “If you allow some men to run the rule over von. thev wdl run it otvor you all the time”, he said. “We have any number of instances where men who hive nous I ant iohs d"aw sustenance till thev ore bowled out”, sn'd' Air Armstrong. He add/xl that in one case a. number of men who worked together on ai job decided to give Hi<> emnlov-'r false names, so that their earnings should not ho trac'd. In, furHuu’ diseuss'on. the don"(a----t-on reminded the Government t'-at it Fad boon in mower fo" rix months The Prime AThr’-'+or: 8 ; x mouths r Heavens atnr>! Previous Governments have Keen in power for qonor af ions. and havd created hurdles we have to get over. A sic°d I o ofiyo the dopof a tinn something foo-lv rlefimie in tlm wav of sustenance tho Prime AHnkster rpoked . <<J am not gO’TIg to SIVO von anything, T have, been too lone- in Parliament to tell you that- it wdl he next week. “T am asking the unomoloved and you to depend on me. and! those r'. soc-ated w’t.h me to do the job. We are working u’Vht and dav io tw aud lay a foundation W« are laving the foundation now. We d-Ylo’t. start, because von came here to-day '’ The Alans ter of Labor explained that reb'ef workers had not received all the benefit o 1 ’ unernolovinent. taxation, Inrt'i now tlw* r were receiving m<v° than tin* tax ta-ought ,: n “I want £2 500.00 P ; n addition to the revenue which w’ll come from tlm tax. and tin Government bus decided to give it to me.” he saki.