EMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LII, Issue 117, 8 July 1931, Page 3

EMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

MGRESS OF THE BILL. KD READING CARRIED. "■ELLINGTON, Last niylit. Woml reading; of the Unem- ® Amendment Bill was earthe House about midnight, xasure was accorded urgency, Minister stating that lie to clear the way for the in- ® of the new taxation mea- * that they could come into 'August Ist. fillister in charge of the bill, 11 S. G. Smith, expressed lion at the sympathetic recepwled the measure. The prin'jwtions accorded seemed to round the imposition of the unemployed. Take, for infreezing workers, said the ■■ These men had well paid 'Part of the year and when * ended relief work was * tor them for the first time v These men could not be from payment of the levy. was exempted all classes !r eto receive the same treatI teen suggested that it ought wsible to pay union rates of * relief work. Would the “ asked, be prepared to pay

to 45,000 unemployed for J a year, making a total of The purpose of the f flat rate was to keep in th every person entitled to wv. A nominal rate of lower paid workers would 1 the position, because the ®t wonted money to provide r unemployed. In connection ’ «»y mi women’s incomes 'fat a tax on women at all, • v a tax on their income. :i) more unjust than a levy ’’th whom women competed T- The proposal to absorb 'w.ved on land development ’as impracticable.