UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20104, 6 December 1930, Page 9

UNEMPLOYMENT.

THE £25,000 OFFER

meeting of committee.

The chairman, of the Finance Committee of the Otisens' Unemployment Committee (Mr E. H. Andrews) said ast evening that he understood that the Unemployment Board's second Mr Andrews expected that a special wTm'L n ? Clt 'zens' Committee would be called next week. The committee would probably advertise for private y-ork m gardens, since money ™ to be spent in subsidy on wages LOCAL COMMITTEE SET UP. (press association TELEGRAM.) NEW PI/i MOUTH, December 5. A local committee under the Unemployment Act was set up tc-night at a conference of delegates representing all local bodies and Associations concerned in North Taranaki. A draft sot ot resolutions lor the administration or unemployment activities under tlie unemployment Board was adopted with some amendments. Resolutions had been submitted to the Minister, 10l lowing a conference with him at .New Plymouth, and in telegraphing to to-night's meeting the lion. S. G? Smith said the resolutions woukl probably be accepted as a model set. Applications tor copies had been received from various parts of tho Dominion. PAYMENT OF LEVY. [THE PRESB Special Sorvlce.J WELLINGTON, December 5. In spite of the fact that less than a. week has passed since the first instalment of the unemployment levy fell due, about 2-50,000 coupon booklets have been issued by tho postal authorities throughout New Zealand to those liable for payment of tho levy under the Act. A total of 25,141 persons registered under tho Act in Wellington alone, and of these 10.845 have already received their booklets. STREET MEETINGS HELD. Numerous meetings were held by the unemployed in tho City yesterday, some of them in the streets. Members of the polico force were in attendance, and told the speakers to move on when they endcavoureti to address a large crowd in front of tho Municipal Offices. Later they broke up a meeting held in Cathedral square, at tho | south end of the tram shelter. "We will answer tho police baton for baton, fist for fist, blow for blow," declared cne of the orators in Manchester street. A police sergeant expressed disapproval of tho uso of such strong language, but no arrests wcro made. Mr A. F. Marshall, addressing tho Square meeting, urged the employed and unemployed workers to form Workers' Defence Corps, similar to the Red Guards in Russia and the lied Front Fighters in Germany. "If the police attack us then, we 6hall be able to deal with ihcm," he explained. An appeal for funds for the payment of hall rent produced a shower of coins, mostly pennies, which made a total of lis (id. As the meeting closed, threats wcro made of a monster demonstration on Mondrrv, women being asked to bead a procession through the streets. In reply to a letter forwarded to him by the Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer) at tho request of the unemployed, the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) has written expressing his sympathy, and stating that he would bring the matter to the notice of Cabinet Ministers.