UNEMPLOYMENT.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 22 March 1924, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT.

MR BALDWIN’S WARNING. FEB PBESB ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT LONDON, March 20. Mr Baldwin, speaking at the Marlton Club luncheon, surprised members by his reference to unemployment, declaring that there would be no peace or prosperity in Britain until they had the masses working, earning god wages and living under better conditions. Whatever profits the middleman, banking and railway companies might make, unless the conditions of the working peoples improved, the whole edifice would crumble and fall. He noticed that though company chairmen referred to these matters, companies’ dividends never seemed to be reduced. Th miners should not be regarded as disgruntled and alwajo ready to strike. They had made great sacrifices for the country, and had gone through a critical two years most courageously. The Conservatives ought to study the economic aspects of unemployment.

BRITAIN'S LARGE EXPENDITURE LONDON March 21. It ig officially stated that unemployment in Britain, since the Armistice the cost of £392,000,000, of which the cost to the Exchange was £170,000,000.