THE UNEMPLOYED ARMY
Mr. H. E. Combs, Labour candidate ioi Wellington Suburbs, wants to know where tfce 35,000 unemployed the National Party says are still in New Zealand came from. Speaking at Lower Hutt last evening, he said there were 24,000 more employees to the workshops, 14,000 more oh' public works, 5000 more on railways, 3000! more in the Post and Telegraph Department, increased staffs in the shops, and 2500 more shops with people emr ployed in them. Surely, he asked, those persons must have been " unemployed? It was futile, said Mr. Combs, for the National candidates .to tell the electors that the unemployed army was as big today as before the Labour Party took control. In the main, everybody was back at work in New Zealand, getting better money and working shorter hours. «.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 23
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134THE UNEMPLOYED ARMY Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 23
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