INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1928, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE

REPORT OF COMMITTEE

By Telegraph—Press Assn,, Copyright,

WELLINGTON, -May 15.

When the National Industrial Conference resumed ;to-djiy the special point committee submitted a report dealing with unemployment, immigration and workers’ compensation, in regard to unemployed. It was recommended that Government should provide out of the Consolidated Fund such sums as were necessary to cope with the situation. The Government Statistical Department -should collect and compile accurate data with a view to determining tho causes and volume of seasonal and periodic unemployment, and the possibility of organising a Dominion labour demand, so as to minimise the effects of seasonal unemployment. It was suggested that a committee of three consisting of n Government representative and one rerepresentative of each, workers and employers, should he set up to go fully into the question and advise tho Government. It was urged that Government should encourage as many hoys as possible to take up farming occupations, rather than professional ' a ‘ n< l commercial vocations, as there were insufficient openings for hoys in the cities, whereas there was unremitted sco|>o in the country. Dealing with immigration, the committee recommended the strictest possible supervision of the nomination system for all classes of immigrants,, tin efficient medical examination of all migrants at the port of embarkation by New Zealand medical officers, the regulation of immigration in accordance with the state of the labour market and ability of the Dominion to absorb immigrants in .employment, and that the Immigration Department ho given control of the health examinations and financial qualifications of juvenile and adult immigrants. In the question of workers’ eompen-i-atio.n. the »onmiictee recommended that insurance should he compulsory, unless other suitable arrangements were made; that there should he a thorough investigation of the Ontario system of compensation with regard to its adoption in New Zealand and that there should be medical, .surgical and services provided for injured workmen;