Tackling the Unemployment Problem

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7460, 10 May 1934, Page 6

Tackling the Unemployment Problem

SUGGESTIONS FROM AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Proposals for dealing with the unemployment problem were adopted at. a conference representing local bodies and social organisation**. The first proposal was that, pending their re-absorption into industry, the unemployed should bo granted sustenance payments on the scale laid down i„ the original Act of 1030 and throughout the whole period of their disemployment. Other proposals were that immediate steps should bo taken to restore trade union conditions, and that work of a constructive nature should be can ice! out at standard rates of pay. Dennite plans should be prepared l'or the full development of the Dominion’s natural resources. All benefits derived from machinery should be conferred on humanity as a whole. An economic land settlement policy should bo inaugurated on the lines of the village and group settlement and the Government should inquire into the establishment of new industries.

The conference approved a suggestion to issue municipal credit notes to the amount of 25 per cent, of the Ordinary expenditure of municipal authorities, but the proposal was referred to a committee for elaboration.