THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 240, 24 September 1914, Page 7

THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

PCHiTLOX IMPIPiVING AT NAl'irJ;. Frun into niuicii clicilc-.l a; yesurday s inwiiiig <•» liu- '.apier Distress i■ niit ■ ;! :•[>[» a.'that tiic aunilx i <>l I'lii-riiploy in Napier ar . consider;’!•*;>■ iie< ic/s-d during -he p 1..; week. Th<- Mayor (Air. T. Vigor Brown. _>I.P.) saiil that 31 varpi iiters anti .a.Lctire: s l:;ul been taken on by the earbot:. lioard .>incc the last nieet,ig uf the ccninii?tec, ;>> d four coni..ets had been . let th-’l morning . inch. lie supposed, would absorb 12 o Id painters. 'llia; had. In- thought, .o an extent - nut a la.ge extent — .eiievfd lim position i<r a little, nough there were sti.l im:ry unjinpicyeii. Air Donald (Inspector if Facorier): 1 have oier 10 on the books, iicugn 1 cannot say that all of them xre here now. -Ur. D. ‘McCarthy! Things are a .ittie wurs" at the * ate: iron; than .□ usual ;.i tin;, time <_■ the y.., The .Mayor: it looks, then, at any, ate. tliai in a few weeks the ship-i _nng w nl be back io it s normal conlitioa. ; Air. McCarthy: Ye.-: pn tty well. Mr. Donald : The Hasii igs borough engineer told me that during this nonth he- had had cut 40 rpplica-; .ions fcr work. 1 have bad several nen f.orn Hastings, lie have lotake! Hastings into consideration because; .hey will nat in ally Uock hex . I lite Mayor: The Harbour Board mil Borough Council will naturally jniplcy residents here first. The Hospital Board is ejjiploying nine lien. Mr. Donald : ll:c whole of our resources f<;r relit ting unemployed are ,j. act ica iiy ex ha ust ed. The Mayor: 1 suppose nothing .nore can he done unless the Govern uent starts the East Coast railway >r something. It is stated that there were at east 40 men known to be out ot vork in Napier, and a similar number nt Hastings. Mr. Moulton (union secretary): Dy re is very little distress in the skilled trades. I do not think there •. e a great many out of work in <apier or Hastings. Mr. Phairn (secretary of the Cailcrs’ Union): As far as the ailors are concerned, they are most-, y working on piecework" None of lie shops in the town are busv at ill. The Mayor: Over 60 people have icon employed since our last meeting as the result of the conferences -e have hail. The following resolution, moved ;y th< Mayor, was carried : ’ That his meeting is of opinion that the ( Government ought to do something' as tin local bodies have clone all hr\ can) to go on with the East Joast railway, the Westshore bridge ir something to absorb Labour.” If. ;aid the Mayor, they were doing in Hastings what we are doing here it night help the position a bit.