THE UNEMPLOYED

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1929, Page 6

THE UNEMPLOYED

PRESS COMMENT

[United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

LONDON, December 12

“ The unemployment figures are the writing on the wall, not only for the Government, but also for the nation, unless these can be sealed down,” says the Daily Express, in commenting on the 'fact that more than one million women, and sixty thousand boys and girls, are on the register of the “doles” at one end of the human scale, and upon superannuation at the other end. These, it declares, are merely palliatives.

The paper says: What is needed is concentration upon a programme of public improvement, calculated to incrase the national efficiency, such as the reconditioning of the railways, the introduction of larger trucks, the building of new roads, and the reclamation of waste lands.

LONDON, December 12

The Daily Herald, commenting on the unemployment, says: The Tories stress the seasonal increase in unemployment, but they hide the fact tint the unemployment figures are 47,90fi below that for the corresponding week of last year. It is ridiculous to rail against Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas because he has not solved the problem in six months. The Tories held office themselves for as many years as Labour has had office for months, and yet they did next to nothing.