WHERE LABOUR DOES NOT RULE
Ninety-three per ceut. of tlie available wage-carnera oi New bouLli Wales are at work. Four years ago tlie porceutage of wage-earners uuemployed was 26.5. A year ago it was v11.4. By May of this year the percentage had fallen to 7. This is the story of increase.d employmenfc as told by the State statistician — In June, 1933, there were 478,000 people in piivate employment By June, 1935, the number had increased to 567,000. By June, 1937, it had reached 650,000. The increase of private employment, therefore, had been bo per cent. in four years. The Premier (Mr, Stevens) estimates that jobs will be available for between 30,000 and 40,000 persons during the next 12 months. The greatest single problem remaining in connection with the unemployed is the finding of jobs for workless youths, and the Government is making a vigorous drive to provide them with work. At least 10,000 youths and boys will be placed in the eurrent year. "• There is proof in these figures that the New Zealand Labour Government 's methods of creating new jobs by burdening and interfer-. ing with jxivata gnterpris,e, are offoetlve^ ..
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370817.2.29.4
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 180, 17 August 1937, Page 6
Word Count
192WHERE LABOUR DOES NOT RULE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 180, 17 August 1937, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in