UNEMPLOYMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1930, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT

OVER 100 DISMISSALS

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association )

AUCKLAND, January 10.

Seventy of the employees at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops to-day received notice of dismissal, dating lroin to-morrow.

Over a hundred men were discharged on Christmas'Pve, thus indicating a serious shortage of work at these workshops. s ’ ' A large number of men' dismissed are married with families, and some of them have been working at Otahuhu foi: over a year. Air W. J. Jordan, M.P., for Alanakau, has telegraphed the Hon. G. W. Forbes, expressing great concern at the action taken in view of the Government’s promise to solve the unemployment problem by offering work erf a pernament nature.

ACUTE AT CHRISTCHURCH

CHRISTCHURCH, January 10

The Church, the Afunicipality and the Legislature were represented at a meeting of the unemployed held to-day in the Trades Hall, the object being to discuss the present position and, if possible ,to find means of dealing with it. After the addresses, a motion was carried asking the Government at once to take steps to relieve the present distress caused by unemployment, iffabsequently the- following tejlegram was sent to the Prime Minister by Mr P. T. Armstrong, Af.P.: “Unemployment here is acute and is getting worse. A large meeting of unemployed held here to-day passed a resolution urging the Government to provtide v <>rli ionmodiately at adequate wages to relieve the position, which is becoming desperate.”