MEN OUT OF WORK.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1951, 7 January 1914, Page 5

MEN OUT OF WORK.

CONDITIONS NOT YET NORMAL. The equation of supply and '.demand in the labour, market lias not yet quito been established since the recent strike. An uriusuallv largo number of men are coming to the Mayor of the City (Mr. J. P. Luke) every day, asking either that he should find employment for them 'under tlie City Council, or that he should interest himself in assisting them to berths in private employ. . Mr. Luke told a .Dominion reporter yesterday that the effect of the strike seemed to have been morn widespread than was generally supposed. The men applying did not uppear to have bce;l strikers in the first instance, but had simply found themselves without employment owin* to the interruption of business, caused by th? labour dis'hirbnnce, .and normal conditions did not appear to hnve yet been restored. So far as the City Council were concerned, they v.'oro rapidly approaching tlie end of their financial year, and no funds were available to provide anything in tho nature of rolief works. '• During ■the winter n large'number of unskilled men had been employed on the Lyall Bay works and on the Kilbirnie reclamation, and he had Jiopod that in tJio rammer work' in the country and the iner?ase<i business on the. Hwrves would absorb the surplus men. Unfortunately, however, thero r.?emed to be junt as many ■unemployed looking for work as flt any' time during the winter.