PROBLEM OF IDLE WORKERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18637, 5 August 1930, Page 9

PROBLEM OF IDLE WORKERS.

Europe’s Big Programme.

THREE MILLION UNEMPLOYED IN GERMANY.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (“The Times.’’) (Received August 4, 7.0 p.m.) LONDON, August 3.

The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” states that Germany is tackling the problem of three million unemployed by the formation of a Public Works Company with a capital of £7,500.000, and reserves of £11.250,000, with a strong Board supervised by a Government Commissioner, for the execution and extension of productive schemes; through taking up of home and foreign loans; granting credits to public corporations, and other undertakings. A communique explains that tht Budget amounts allotted to unemployment schemes are declining yearly, for which the Government, which has accumulated £20,000,000 in credit claims on bodies to which the grants are made, will mobilise this amount. The Government will also raise £10.000.000 in foreign loans, including Anglo-American, in the next three months. This will enable an unemployment programme to be drawn up several years ahead. ITALY’S EXPANSIVE PROPOSAL. LARGE OUTLAY" INVOLVED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 4, 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 4. The Rome correspondent of “The Times” states that the Government is intensifying its policy of carrying out public works in pursuance of its plan for relieving unemployment. The first instalment of the plan provides for the building of apartment houses for telephone and telegraph workers, in eight principal cities, also for railway employees in fifty towns, at a cost of £1,235,000. Other public works authorised will cost £730.000. The Ministry of Communications proposed a railway programme employing 15,000 men. The Health Ministry is building nine tubercular hospitals, with 25,000 beds, in addition to twelve with 3000 beds already under construction. Re-building in the earthquake area will employ 3000 men. TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE. NATIONAL INSURANCE SCHEME. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 4, 7.0 p.m.) PARIS, August 3. One hundred thousand textile workers in the Roubaix area # struck. They have refused to contribute to the national insurance scheme. WORK IN NEW SOUTH WALES. GOVERNMENT’S EFFECTIVE SCHEME. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, August 4. The results for the first month indicate the benefits the unemployed are deriving from the Government’s emergency scheme. Five thousand are already working, and £50,000 was distributed among them. Another 2500 begin to-day and by the end of the week 10,000 will be earning wages for the first time this winter.