UNEMPLOYED BOYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21098, 4 February 1932, Page 17

UNEMPLOYED BOYS.

GREAT ECONOMIC PROBLEM. OPPORTUNITY FOR INDUSTRIES. "It :s astounding that, even with 50,000 unemployed already and thousands of boys leaving school vrith no occupations to enter, there is still so little •ttenibn paid to the necessity for indus trial - development," says Mr. A. E. Jiacder in a statement presented to the Auckland Manufacturers' Association. "The plain fact is that there is no hope of reabsorbing the majority of our unemployed, and no hop= of finding em ployment for Our natural increase of population, except through the rapid expansion of manufacturing industries." he continues. " Leave the ' unemployed out of account fcr the moment and consider only the Problem of finding economic employment for 7200 additional males every year, this king the natural increase of male popuktion, the excess of boys leaving school TOrv year over the number of men re bring or dying. Every year we need to find occupation for 7200 more males than we iiad the year before. *re they to be fit'ed in ? Of course, the **& l offhand reply is: 'On the land." ®nt let us remember that the most amotions and expensive scheme of land provides only for the settle®®pt of 1200 additional males a year. j still leaves a balance of 6000 to be j wsorbed, and this is the more serious i urgent problem confronting New Zeawd to-day. It is clear tha* we are approaching Uttering platitudes, tinkering the situation, and granting tempor**7 inadequate relief cannot continue fcach longer. , This year must give us * definite, deliberate, strong and tourageplan of national economic reconstracFailing the adoption of such a the inevitable alternative is a comP«e social and economic collapse, plungr 1 ? the whole people into chaos. Capitally 51 . private enterprise have to-day r 4 ? su preme and probablv final oppory&y- To-day the initiative rests wi'h themselves. * urgently need to perJ*? *heir own organisation, to work out schemes of co-ordination and where necessary to secure maximum efficiency and economy, overlapping and wasteful and then to plan a rapid i trie^ 1151011 ie manu * aetunn P indus- | eoujj . ? an ' )e shown that industry a very short time, only proper organisation and the Blent 011 °* 3 & " ent^c of developthe • I '^ eir OWD organisation taking awria- ar >d co-operating with the ,°P*ent of Industries Board, the iodnstr» urers °f New Zealand can place triaJisfs U^°n a Dew .' 3as i s ' giving indus*sd: rn**, Bll ? nonr) ous increase uf efficiency •torinp J*" * - at 531116 time, rejrhale. to the Dominion as a •This is the year of opportunity." 1