WORKERS IN VICTORIA.
DECLINE IN UNEMPLOYMENT. RELIEF BILL STILL LARGE. There has been a decline in unemployment in Victoria, but tho Government's annual appropriation for relief still amounts to nearly £1 a head of tho State's population, or in round figures about £1,700,000. Nearly all of the money is distributed as sustenance in th« form of orders on shopkeepers for necessaries. Numbers of men out of work apply for assistance as prospectors. They aro each allowed a few shillings a week and go off to tho auriferous areas with eagerness. Somo of them havo done well and the gold-yield increases. Ono political party in tho State holds that wages on unemployment relief works should bo lower than those fixed by the industrial tribunals, and that the awards of these tribunals should bo temporarily suspended in order that work may be given at rates that those who supply it can afford. The second party, consisting largely of the trades unions, contends that the unemployed should not be allowed to work at rates lower than those paid in industry generally. This question will be a leading one when the Government asks for a new appropriation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 11
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