FARMING OFFERS BEST SOLUTION

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 30, 6 February 1929, Page 5

FARMING OFFERS BEST SOLUTION

JIITENUE UNEMPLOYMENT-

labour DEPARTMENT holds CONFERENCE.

WELLINGTON, Last Night. ' A conference of various local bodies and the Labour Department/., to-day considered the problem of floyment.fdr V™ ths who haVe 3 le Mter M »rt® ta g t 0 an aM t SB il! Rowley, Secretary of the L WUr Department, who presided, there Summing «us up Mr Rowley said obviously yocarfonal ” ,a!nre was not going to increase jobs ottered. He was oouymced , something was wanted on lines advocated by one ot the speakers. Boys should be trained as they were at Flock House and assisted on to the-land, tor farming presented a .practically unlimited market. mlgit be made to absord more, laDour than any other industry. ISATHO SCHOOL AGE. , Mr Bromley (Trades and Laboui council) moved that the Government be recommended to raise the age ot leaving school one year, ftnan--of,l relief being given to parents i necessitous cases. It was mo economical, be ,said, tor industry to employ only the efficient and profitable and tor the Government to keep children at school than to P V unemployment doles to adults i •The setting up of a Royal Com ' mission-was advocafed by Mr. Ca|g» belt (Employer’s Association , who said the meeting had not got suffi dent data before It to .express any opinion as to the, effect of raising the school leaving age.

COMMITTEE ,!i EXICTENCE. A uommltte to investigate unemployment, Juvenile unemployment being part ol the general problem was already in existence, sa d Mr. Bromley, but was not lunchon.ng owing to the politial upheaval. To set up a Royal Commission was the surest way ot killing apytbmg. H > proposal although not etfeotmg permanent cure, would do something, Mr Bromleys, motion, which was seconded by Mr Cornwell, was lost when put to the meeting. Mr Campbell's' motion was amended to read that the Government should be urged to set up a committee to investigate the problem was earned. Mr Cornwell (Trades and Labour Council) then moved that It should be a recommendation to the Government that the hours o( the working "week should be reduced in number, this being the only sane and sensible solution ,ot the world's problem ot unemployment. .in seconding this motion, Mr Bromley said that overtime would have to be prohibited, too. This motion' was lost; one Pf those present saying that it would come in time, hut was five years too soon.