UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT.

MR AMERY EXAMINES CAUSES

(BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT.) (AU6IBALIAN AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

SYDNEY, November 16. Mr L. C. Amery has returned to Sydney,

Addressing the Millions Club, he reiterated the argument that what Australia wanted was men aud markets.

Dealing wit'h the question of unemployment, he said that it was a mistake to assume that unemployment hero or in the Old Country was due to overpopulation. It was due to defective organisation and might be due to the defective balance between the different industries, but it was not due to overpopulation. Immigration was the only effective cure for unemployment so long as the right class of immigrants were obtained and became productive units. Both England and Australia needed an outside market.

When they looked at the outside markets of the world and the tariffs that were raised against England and Australia and at the competition of lowerpaid labour it was well that they should consider when they should combine some of the advantages of the wide outside market with the security of a Home market by making the Empire the wider Home market for them all. If they worked separately and anyhow their producing power was lost and their trade went to countries that had no intention of buying from them if they could help it. They had to harness and co-ordinate their power. "If only we can get together we can make use of the enormous natural resources of the British Empire with results that will surprise us and stagger the world." he said.