BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 8

BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT.

LABOUR’S DISSATISFACTION. (British Official Wireless.) Received Febim." n • 0 a.m. RUGBY. Feb. 16. 'The debate on unemployment -was raised in the House of Commons on the Labour resolution moved by Rt. Hon. A. Greenwood, which regretted the continued failure of the Government either to produce definite plans for the provision of work and wages under the present systeni or to initiate a policy which recognised that the problem could only he solved by the application of Socialist principles. In calling upon the Government to advance proposals to meet the situation, Mr Greenwood reviewed the position in shipbuilding, cotton, and agriculture, and other industries which were in a depressed condition, and contrasted, this fact with the assertion in the memorandum of the Royal Economic Society that the increase in physical output per operative in the last five vears amounted to 27 per cent., and in the ease of the engineering industry to 57 per cent. He urged the need for great public schemes of land drainage, the development of roads and transport, as well as work in connection with the protection of the civil population in time of -war. Mr Ernest Brown (Minister of Labour) said that, although there was no difference in the country about the gravity of some aspects of the problem, it could not be stated in the terms Mr Greenwood had used.