UNEMPLOYMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 4 October 1909, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT.

; WFICIENT/vo i-: ; ';) : kC'.wi labour: ,colonies; x r v'.-. :^; >'; ' (By' Assoclatlon— Copyright.) -' : '■■''* Qotcrtier' 3,55.5 v p.m.) vv ; ;; ; v pri'v ±J : Sviiy Lori don, ;2i ; ;; )'-"The^ , iiral;;(lTn>mp i loy«d) : B6ay;(the''Gent'ilai ; for .es'tiiblishedV'for,.: the ' 'relief j'pi/'distrtjjfr uijddr./the '■tJiie'mp , ioyfcd;'Tirbrt-' :mon ]i£bi, .iJMd^has..reßplyedito cairihp'.atten':; tho Jfact;VtUat c ihe , ;XTnemplqyo l d' ( 'is/quitf'iriftdequttte'jtt OBnblevtKoVCofflmittfioi distrpss''cause'J , ,' hy. 'unomployrijeni:.' if,' : ',.'''> ;i':,; ■must-be-jittjplcmcnled' by national action,'; such as tt\n 'itfkiAinfr-pi. ■ artang6minfa- for■'.mipration .and';immigratiori,'.;triiinirig''; instite'tions,','; and' ■labputf-; r c6ioniesv;;^.;-/ 1 '«"V:-"|'-v"i n 'r^^ :^.^vr"''v^^, -'->'.'"V:'^

; FARM"CdI;pNIES;'-! : V <_ | .Mr. , .'jrohnlßurns,:.Prisi(lent.: : of /the./ Loca l, Government. Board,--'has-never enthused • over .the- Hollesley Bay' farm .colony results. 1 Speaking in,the,:H6use : of-Commons, he 1 said , he'had -.promised, (that: ho 'would > be'fair/ and 'even generous, to vHollesWy Bay during the ,cxperimentatpenqd,.. How. had/he'. shoNvn it? ;Apart ■from \the .purchase money, .'£43,475! the gross cost.vof inianhge'ment .for Hbllesley Bay for less •than: three -year's twas' JB68iOOO;i"".i-The re-' oeiptsi from, sales: of: produce were • ; i •The ;■ net:. 6ost—hov would;.'not' say loss,; so ■■ as not to offend susceptibilities—was So\i coulci <anybcdy'say'he had , boen : stern : ahd^in ; bonding?oFor.;,this-;farge sum 2513. men had passed .through •: tho.:. polony;; ; they ,■;, had 'from ; eight;■ to 16 ...weeks'':residence. there on tho average.; /The] net -cost/per'■' week per,' man was betwnenyOs.vand' 31S.T, including loan charges it was/88s/':Tor .■'that:they received .board and lodging .and .Gd.;..pooket-niohey. '.The; , .wife iand children.- in,'■ London received 'maintenance up' to. 17g.'\6d.' per "week;-..-When' an agricultural 70 hours per. wtek,. • hadito pay/rent, nnd maintain wife-and>child-'ren;.on- art':.- average .of '2s. or. 3s. ■ a week. less than■'■ what. tho/;man's -.wife and ■• ohildren ■ received in; London 'alone—(hear, hear)—no onb conld"accuse.him- or harshness, o ■=,!'/'■ ■'■■■-'■:' : -What.'; were - the \ results? '.-.continued'' Mr;: Burns.:, Of !the 2513/: 148- hadi emigrated. ■- Some pMple:were, .under'the'-,impression h that, this ■was-. : t6'.be< a school-for training emigrants for America and' Canada.'. .There was a great" deal of-i'difterence.^between.'market gardening near, a; town and'work, on- a.ranch •Oγ prairie ; farnv inJ'America,;and:.Caiiada,-Jand he found that tho:townsman; who.had been to/ the.' training colony was.:worse '-off when he .went-out there than, he' /would.i have been: if'he ' had'- gone straight to tho ranoh: or prairie farm with an. energetic: and adaptable.' mind, 'v How many, men ;,had : returned back to -the. land ? 'Thirty. Eevbn:only; , 'and 'it:was .'very significant .that' out, of -the 37; more than'one-third were agricultural labourers;;beforo they: ; went to flollesloy 'Bay. ; Only 18 per cent, of the'meQ had-found: work .after :they left', tho colony; as .could bo:ascertained, in.theitowns and cities;to;whiph : they returned.; .The'settkment of -,'the.-inen.-iii ordinary, farm', situations or in , market (gardens-ori ordinary occupations had 'proved, in imost .cases impossible, consequently the only:considerable outlet for :»en- trained at- Hollesley,;Bay. had been by emigration.'■;• * Speaking in.the : same debate, Jlr. Summerbell, Labour member for:Sunderland, said it was better to :a'week for a. ; man at Hollesley Bay ...than...lto.-.a-, week/in 'poor-law': .relief.'--:--.,;:.; vf y '."•'.''■■■■■.::^::': "•'■..'.■'■• '■. ': :. :