LABOUR PARTY POLICY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 10

LABOUR PARTY POLICY.

UNEMPLOYMENT MATTERS.

LAND SETTLEMENT EFFORTS

[by TKLEOTIAPIT, —OWN con RESPONDENT. J

HAMILTON, Monday

The Labour Party's platform, with partic(ilg.r reference, to its land settlement policy arid its proposed method of solving the unemployment, problem, was explained by Mr. IT. E. Holland, the Loader of ; the Party, to an attentive audience in the Frank ton Town Hall this evening. Miss A. Grevillo presided. Mr. W. Leo Martin, MrP. for Raglan, was also on the platform. " Work for tho unemployed should bo a necessary work, and it should not bo classified us a relief work," said Mr. Holland. The, Labour Party's charge against the Reform Party was that under its immigration scheme, many men wore brought out from Homo without due arrangements being made for providing them with employment. The growing army of unemployed was a result of the operation of this scheme. The remedy undertaken by Mr, Ooates consisted of calling certain necessary public works relief works. If the Reform Party came back into power there would be a reversion to the nine shillings and twelve shillings a day standard of wages. One of the charges against the present Government was that, although it raised the standard of wages on relief works, it still pursued the wrong policy of Mr. Coatea in calling necessary works relief works and paid relief rates of wages on them. Mr., Holland emphasised the importance of linking up land settlement with tho efforts to solve unemployment and said tho Labour Party would pay standard ■wages on 5 such work. A vote of thanks to Mr. Holland was Carried without dissent.