LOOKING FOR WORK.

Dominion, Issue 1337, 15 January 1912, Page 4

LOOKING FOR WORK.

$. UNEMPLOYED,. AT W A 111 I. According to the secretary of tho Waihi Miners' and Workers' Union (Mr. C. M'Millan) there are quite a number of unemployed in the district at present. He slates'that the employment book kept by tho union shows that' about 100 men are out of work, and numbers are daily visiting the mines and the union office in search of employment, without being ablo to procure it. • .Mr. M'Jlillau added that the unemployed included some of the old hands previously engaged in the district, mid a considerable number of strangers who oanin in during, and after, the holidays in the hope of obtaining work. He advises workers contemplating coming to Waihi to consider the state of the local labour market l>efore so doing. Spoken to subsequently on the question of unemployment, a representative of the mineownevs said that certain of the old workers, whose contracts terminated some time ago, were possibly still out of work, but there had been no reduction of hands lately. In fact, certain of the contractors had been requested, during tho past few days, to increase the numbers employed on their jobs. It was, however, not unusual to find ft surplus of workers in the district just after the holidays, the majority of whom are usually !strangers in March of employment.