UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
CRITICISM OF THE GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, May 21. A large meeting of unemployed this morning criticised the Government relief schemes. Instances were given of married men going on relief jobs and coming off in debt. The Mayor, Mr. J. Vigor Brown, expressed the opinion that the relief of unemployment was a problem for the Government. Speakers instanced the influx of immigrants as one of the main causes of the unemployment. No scrub-cutting, fencing and like work was now offering on farms.
The Mayor said that modern machinery was obviating the necessity for wharf labourers for handling coal, oil and other products. Ho expressed the opinion that the Government should open up fresh avenues of employment for those disappearing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1928, Page 13
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