UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 24 October 1908, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM

RESOLUTIONS IN- THE COMMONS. LPBKBS ASSOCIATION/I LONDON, October 23. This following Ministerialist, motion j£wi!l be incved in tho Houaa of Corninans omTifonday: — "The House welcomes Mr Asqu'ith's statement regarding tha nafuaial importance of thd prdbleon of un<!rnpl6}'ment and approves tihe steps proposed to deal with the matter" „ Mr Keir-Hardie moves, on behalf of tiha Independent Labctf party, "That while recogEisdns* the importance of Mr Asquith's prcmiso to introduce early legislation dealing with u^efepi!pjyjKifipa.t on a permanent ba&ia and wdeomiW:^© protrosa %>..ad-. rainjster with more ,^JassKc'ify w* es. istirp Act and proviab more money, this House is of opinion that the proposals arc quite) inadequate to m/2et the pressing needs of this winter, aad of the propeu ntiachinery, evem. *or caixyiner out tli© eocisting' pcweirs, ajirl that thei general ujapreparedneißßi «>f tffie cownitry to meoti the present un «<£nplcyed crisis, is due to tha neglect, of tibfl Government, to make provision foVa state of affairs clearly forwB©en,' The TJEJand&ts will not move an amendment. ' CANAL WORK f»ROPOSED. (Received October 24, 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 23. The Glasgow corporatiiotn intends to memorialise tiha Government to pr<v ceed with the fourth! Clyde ship canal.