UNEMPLOYED

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 May 1928, Page 11

UNEMPLOYED

PROBLEM IN NEW ZEALAND VARIOUS VIEWS EXPRESSED. AT INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Alay 16. The Industrial Go-nteienee aas re-c-eveU the repent of the committee (.published on seven). in moving t-n-e adoption cf tlie- recommendations, in regard to unemployment, Mr Alcßride said that it watsi oniy right chi>t i-ilief should come front ttie- Oou-.-aiidated Fund, for ail -sections of the cc inmuni tv were contributors to that fund. Too committee -sa-w the need tor coulee-ting data in regard to unemployment if the? problem was to be uea.it with an a, permanent maimer. Regret was expressed by Air Cornwell that grpaiter attention had not -been given bv the /committee to the question of unemployment insurance. The workers had already proposed a. system under which They would contribute onethird of the cost. He hoped the Government tvonld give some consideration to this question.

Mr Cook, as a member of the committee, said that it had given t-heqnesi-tion of unemployment- full consideration and schemes' in the- countries thrciughout the world were discussed. [The employers’ representatives l , however, could not see their way to recommend the Government to adopt an unemployment insurance scheme. It tv as felt, however, that the data gathered and the must experience should make the committee to be set up consider the matter very carefully. Air Black suggested that registration of unemployed be made compulsory. As union secretary, he knew that returns m this head were only approximate.