MINING INDUSTRY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 December 1928, Page 9

MINING INDUSTRY

LATE EDITION

UNPARALLELED CONDITIONS PERMANENT UNEMPLOYMENT MIGRATION ONLY SOLUTION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 12.60 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 5. The (situation in the mining aliens in Britain is unparalleled, Tving memorr, 'says the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, in a letter to the conference of mayors assembled for discussion of the allocation of the Lord Mayor’s relief fund. He added: “The salient feature iis that the mining industry is not likely to re-employ a large .proportion of the workless, and their unernd[oyrn en t must be regarded as permanent. The ultimate l solution consists of migration from the devastated areas and elsewhere. It is the Government’s policy to facilitate migration by every means. The interval must be bridged through relief payments to prevent those unemployed l from, sinking into irretrievable exhaustion and ruin.”