UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 123, 19 May 1932, Page 3

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM

<s> SUSTENANCE PROVISION

QUESTION OF CERTIFICATE

(Pct Press Association) AUCKLAND. Last Night

“What are we going to do with the 600 or 700 men who are physically unfit for camp or for hard town work, who are applying to tho Labour Department every day?” asked Sir George Richardson at a meeting of the Auckland Metropolitan Relief Committee. “No jobs can be found for these men, but somethiiig must be done. Are they to be given sustenance?”

The Mayor, Mr G W. Hutchinson: I think wc should ask the Minister for. Employment, what he is going to do about them..

The Labour Department representative said that some local bodies could not find work for the men.

The Mayor: Married men are still being coerced into camps. I say coerced, and I mean it. I think it is absolutely wrong. I am certain that 75 per cent of the community would be against it.

It was decided to ask for a return of the number of men physically unfit. The Mayor mentioned that some- men who had been certified by the derartment’s doctor had produced certir -ates from other doctors that they were unfit. These men were denied work. It was decided to write to the Minister.