UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 July 1928, Page 9

UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

LABOUR’S CENSURE MOTION DEFEATED. (Australian Pr.;ss Association—United Service.) LONDON, July 25. Continuing the debate in the House of Commons on the report of the commission on the transference oil labour to overcome the unemployment difficulty, Mr Phillip Snowden expressed the opinion that the Prime Minister’s speech was a miserable exhibition. If the Government wanted to restore the iron and steel trade it should develop the great possibilities of the Indian Empire. The unemployment problem was to liquidate the surplus ojf 250,000 miners in the great aftermath of the labour disputes of 1926, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Winston Churchill. The Government rating scheme must constitute the main effort in dealing with the present difficult situation. The Government had decided as an extra effort to hiring a portion of the scheme into operation before the rest could be achieved.

Mr Ramsay Macdonald's censure motion, 'deploring “the inadequacy of the measures taken by the Government to deal with* the tragic national i*roblem of unemployment,” and generally criticising the policy of the Government on the question, was defeated by 331 votes to 151.