THE WORKLESS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18899, 14 January 1927, Page 9

THE WORKLESS.

RELIEF FUNDS GONE. SITUATION ACUTE. Tb» unemployment! situation in the City has reached a Very critical point. The Citizens' Unemployment Comtnittoe were called together again yesterday, mid were forced to vote the remaining money iu hand, tho suni of. £l3O, for tho immediate reliof of about thirtv of tho unemployed, who. are to be given work through the Iteserves Committee of the City Council. The chairman (Cr. E. H. Andrewo Saul ho Was very sorry, as were the remainder of the committee, thai they were called together again on account of the acute unemployment situation. He was at a lois to khdtf what they could do except decide what was to be done With the £l3O Whtth the committee had in hand. Mr E. G. Queree, of the Government Unemployment Bureau, said that the total number of unemployed at present ■ was 196, 113 being married men With 3i?4 dependents, \esterday there Were V2 new applications for work, nine being married men with a total of 25 dependents. A member: The position i* wort* than when we met before. Mr AV. E. Leadley wrote advising that the Reserves Committed could .employ about 20 motf if the £l3O, Watch the committee had in hand, was Handed over for that purpose. The Heserves Committee had ftlrdady exceeded its authorised expenditure, and was not in a position to subsidise tho amount. If the Government could reopen its public Works in the- district for a week or two, and the Reserves Department of the City Council provided work for 80 men. .lie was of the opinion that there would be driOugn to meet the situation. Ho also thought. that there would be plenty\6f.Work in the Citv shortly. _^ Mr F, C. Ellis: The number ttforted by the Labour Department is not the total out of work. Theto are many men tramping Canterbury, and there is also a tendettoy for mett to corne from the West Coast. The chairman; there WAai no unemployment over there when I was thire. I have serit a married coUplo to all a position there. Mr ElliS: The position Would hot be 60 acute then. .The timber mills are feeing closed down and there it a\gpod number of men being put ofi. Mr Owen: There is one .work; tho . completion of which would be of gr4at assistance to young yachtsWert, and that is the ailing in Of the rocks around the Cave ftoek. It is ati which would save many fatafitias*;•■.'Hie chairman: But weoanbot delay until wo get rtovernuieftt AanotiOn. -r, . Mr Drayton's tnOtion tUtttK* Wotoy in hAftd ehduta he 9p#ht % tt»« Reserves Committed fdir the itdtrto4iftte : carrying oh of work WKa.'.-.oWtied ; Uninimdu'sly. . The bhalrtnah am he thoUqH : tiley should make iH rnto of pay tew as there was only little over £IOO, And : they wanted it to go as far as passible, , ■';;: -. It mi decided, aftet discUWlon, that SO ro.er\ should he ghsH » week'* KfdltU. V Mr fillis: the position Will ho Wotaj acute no*t KitlUt, -, After further diSdulslott it WAB flecjdod th&t a deputation slWttld Watt upon the Public works BepfttttticAW ,

AT AUCKLAND. IMO MEN WANT WORK; dftß »Bfi6a tyMiu tmu.if.' AVCKUN), January 18. From the chief oentreS lit the Do- ', iiiiniou report* fere t6 hand of ftttieh't unemployment. It wo« liopad that with thd NW Year tho acUte position which obtained during last winter Wdttld - show a considerable impiafdlherit, Jtfiit apparently theio is nd improvaMflflt, ' niidt from ihouiries made ttwiftjr the oijtlook in Auckland is ttOt nil 611 promts- '■ ing. . Just before Christmas' the number of , applicants for employment on tho Wait- » ing list, of the Labour Department 1 dropped a COuplft of hfiAdred, TJMs W6s expected M few men would how to aet work during the holidays, bat New Yoftr ShteWd Upon th* numbers begafl to mount up again, aiftd W«dny ■the list 6f unemployment is Almost in < keeping with th* wom period tit lftjjt winter. , , ' „. *' '/-- j ,< Tho list at the Labour Wm&rtmeint, - does not include fettrfned Mldiets or . ' engineer*, fitters, and turners, pt whom i\ there aro eaid to be about &» ©lit of \ Work, • k A All told, there are at, feast 1000 men now soelanij jobs. . l " ,' '.i 1 ". So far there had been no' aiinoufltfe-'' W6ht by the Government of m 6m- ' > ing Up of nubile works, to pr*VMe,fcV J the unemployed, but th* nositlon. Mi have to be considered at an early date. The secretary of the Cattieater*' Union states; "Since the I have had at least twenty hoys call on me wanting to get into the building but I 6V<dot know a Single builder wanting an apprentice, this, no doubt, is partly due to the tridp being so slack. At the present tlme/there are at least one hundred journeymen carpenters out of employment, and among thert are some of the best tradesmen in the country. I have never knOwn the trade so bad at this time " of the year."* ,