RELIEF ADMINISTRATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 15

RELIEF ADMINISTRATION

CRITICISM BY UNEMPLOYED NO CONFIDENCE IN SYSTEM While it was stressed by speakers that there was 110 suggestion of passing a no-confidence motion in the Government the present policy of administering unemployment relief was the subject of a critical resolution adopted at a meeting of 50 members of the Auckland Metropolitan Unemployed Association in St. Alban's Hall, Brixton Koad. The I?ev. A. J. Greenwood presided. The resolution read as follows: "That this meeting passes a vote of no-confidence in the Government's present policy toward the unemployed and their dependants in relation to its administration of unemployment relief funds; that it condemns the fourmonthly scheme, subsidised works and the State Placement Service; that it is of the opinion that the unemployment funds should be distributed evenly among the unemployed as a whole; that this meeting expresses no confidence in the Government's policy in regard to invalid, old-age and returned soldiers' pensions, payments to people 011 charit-able-aid work and all those not receiving an adequate wage. "Further, this meeting is convinced that the national health insurance scheme is a 'red herring' to bo used as a bait at the next election and that it thoroughly disapproves of the system used in iiifiuiring into the condition of the unemployed."