UNEMPLOYMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 4 June 1926, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT.

“CRY” FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

By Telegraph—Press Associating CHRISTCHURCH, June 3. Speaking at a complimentary social' tendered to Mr M. E. Lyons, the defeated candidate for the Lyttelton electorate, tho Hon. A. D. McLeod touched on tlio unemploy'ment question. Mr McLeod said ho did not think that conditions were any worse than they were at this time in the last two ■ or three years. Tho cry had been made for political purposes. It was a strong statement, but ho made it. There was unemployment, and the Government was making every effort to,, deal with, eases of unemployment. If. it were possible for a working man to keep a wife and two children on £4 a week, then a single man, on the same money, should bo‘ able to save 30s a week.. Young men out'of work'must., be pre--pared to go to the back country, where the Government would try to find: the work. t

DEMANDS OF THE WORKLESS* By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 3. A meeting of about 250 unemployed yesterday adopted the following resolutions : (1) .. That this meeting of,. unemployed workers of Wellington -is ot the opinion that the inward flow of immigration should cease, .-wliilst, tile problem of unemployment remains unsolved, and that the Labour Party and Trade Union movement should make the position clear in tho Old Country. (2) That we, tho employed workers of/ Wellington, - register our- emphatic •protest against th© threatening and dictatorial attitude of;tho Prime Minister in reference to employing men at less*than-a trade union-rate, and-that wo reaffirm our previous decision to insist on trad© union rates of pay, and call on organised Labour to support ns in this direction, and to assist us in what is essentially a working' class light. • , , ~