UNEMPLOYMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1929, Page 1

UNEMPLOYMENT

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

LONDON, December 2

The “Daily Chronicle” says: A party of economists and of leaders of industry will lunch with the lit. Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald at Downing Street to-day, and they will discuss palliatives for unemployment. There is growing anxiety, and even alarm on the part of the Government at the ever-mounting unemployment figures, and at the apparent failure of Rt. Hon. ,J. H. Thomas’s policy. Some of the ministers desire outside help to he called in, and :Vir Thomas has already been in consultation with industrialists. Air MacDonald is now taking a hand. He apparently has in mind the establishment of an Advisory Committee oi Industry, similar to the Cabinet Committee i of Civil Research which Mr Baldwin set up.

Since .June 17th, the unemployment in Britain had risen from a total ol 1,122,713 persons to 1,273,500, and the figures are likely to he over one million three hundred thousand by January. If things drift much' longer, the Government will find that public opinion will be difficult to control.