BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 November 1924, Page 5

BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED.

WHOLESALE IMMIGRATION. “WHERE THE FOOD IS.” Those who are in the closest touch with the problems of industry and economics (says the Army and Navy Gazette) are unanimously of the opinion that even, under the most favourable conditions there never wil 1 again be work for the whole of Great Britain s vast population. The world conditions have so changed that foreign countries will never again be in a posi- ® f> i buy the output of the factories of England and. Scotland as in pre-war days. The civilised countries are all concentrating upon finding employment ror their own nationals, so are either manufacturing themselves what they formerly imported or doing without. There is beside a greater competition for markets everywhere, and l as the British-made goods are almost invariably the dearest, the foreign demand ror British goods is dwindling. “It is now seriously suggested that as food may not be coming to us in the necessary quantities that our unemployed population shall be taken to where the food is. To this end a scheme of wholesale emigration within the Empire has been formulated, and has received a whole-hearted measure of approval. The Canadian and Australian Governments have agreed to receive large numbers of approved emigrants and ex-Service men, and to settle them m groups on the land. Under this group system 100 families from any one area in England will be settled together in one community, so that the sense or loneliness or isolation which has deterred so manv' from going abroad will be avoided. Next spring 5000 families will go under this scheme from Southern England to Canada, and three months later a similar number from the north of England and Scotland will be settled along the Murray river in Australia.”