UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
O • The only real solution of the unemployment problem could come from a more healthy industrial activity, declared Dr. E. Marsden, secretary of Scientific and Industrial Research, when speaking in Palmerston North. He did not suggest a magical change to an age of plenty, but merely a point of view in slow slow but steady 'development to that end. From the economic point of view, 20 per cent, of our available employment resources was not contributing" to the national wealth, while from the moral and social point of view there was considerable danger of deterioration of this labour force, because it was not employed on jobs their innate capacity fitted them for. However, the task was not to find an additional 50,000 paid jobs of some sort. Increasing employment itself could not be of much help unless, at the same time, we raised the quality of employment. This meant not only increased earnings, but an enhanced status for labour, which could only come from efficient industry and a good industrial structure.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4731, 10 August 1935, Page 6
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