“PEOPLE ARE STARVING”

Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1930, Page 11

“PEOPLE ARE STARVING”

AUCKLAND UNEMPLOYMENT

CALLING OF PARLIAMENT URGED.

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS HELPLESS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association,

Auckland, Last Night.

A request that Parliament should be called together immediately to deal with the unemployed problem was contained in a telegram sent this morning to the Hon. G. W. Forbes in Wellington by MT. M. J. Savage, M.P. for Auckland West. Mr. Savage states that members individually are at present, helpless to deal with the subject, Mr. Savage’s telegram was: "The unemployed problem has reached a desperate stage in Auckland; numbers running into thousands are either wholly or partially unemployed, their' families are not getting sufficient to eat and winter is upon them. Local benevolent organisations, both public and private, are doing good work which is totally inadequate to meet tho position. "Men, and women, too, want work and are willing to face anything. They are human and must be fed and housed. What will the Government do to give relief? It is no use talking about next year; people are starving now. "If Cabinet will do nothing else it should at least call Parliament together and place the responsibility with members who are helpless to do anything worth while until the House meets. We will do anything under the sun that will help to relieve the position and will bo glad to have your assurance that action will be taken.”