REQUESTS BY UNEMPLOYED

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1932, Page 7

REQUESTS BY UNEMPLOYED

DEPUTATION TO MINISTERS. SUSTENANCE WITHOUT WORK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Nov. 22. A deputation representing the organised unemployed of New Zealand waited on the Hon. J. G. Cobbe afid the Hon. Adam Hamilton, placing before them numerous matters, chief among them the riot sentences, with regard to which Mr. Cobbe said that a number had already been reviewed by the Prisons Board, and he pointed out that law and order must be preserved. Requests were made for sustenance without work, the placing of women on the same sustenance footing as men, the abolition of camps, the abolition of distinctions between town and country unemployed, full compensation for injuries, and action to prevent hardship by eviction from homes. Mr. Hamilton assured the deputation of the Government’s sympathy in the difficulties, but to give effect to the bulk of the requests would mean that the funds would not last long, he said. Sustenance without work was not in the best interests of the unemployed. It was not in the deputation’s interest to attack the 4a scheme, which was relieving the funds to a large extent. He defended the allotment scheme, and contended with regard to sustenance for women that they were getting fairly favourable treatment. It was not, true that the Unemployment Board was coercing men into “scabbing” on their fellows in any industry.