THE WORKLESS ARMY
POSITION SERIOUS IN CHRISTCHURCH APPREHENSION FELT CSpecial to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. The unemployment position is very serious. “The outlook as far as the Public Works Department is concerned is most unreliable,” said Mr. H. Worrall, secretary of the General Labourers’ Union. “I think that unemployment will be the worst experienced for many years.” “It appears to me that this country is getting into the same position to-day as it was 35 or 40 years ago, when Seddon first took charge,” said Mr. W. H. Winsor, secretary of the Canterbury Builders’ Association. The tramway labourers will finish some work in a few days, and the council’s workworks reticulation will absorb some where necessary.
The Hon. K. S. Williams, Minister of Public Works, in Christchurch last evening said that the department would try to relieve the Christchurch situation.
Soon the Addington workshops reconstruction will relieve the position, when constructional steel arrives from England.
The building slump is also contributing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 13
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