N.Z. UNEMPLOYED

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1931, Page 3

N.Z. UNEMPLOYED

SALVATION ARMY VIEW. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) WELLINGTON. April 19. Unequivocal opposition to tlie payment of the dole ever being made in the Dominion, was expressed h.v Commission *r officer, commanding tlie Salvation Army in New Zealand, at the Salvation Army Congress meeting at the Town Mali this afternoon. He suggested that rand colonies he established al nut live miles outside the four centres, possessing com for la hie dormitory accommodation ■ If this were done, when men approached Mayors of the respective cities for relief, they could say: “.lust a few miles outsit:,e the city there is a place for iust such men as you.”

“It was unthinkable that the dole systemr which had demoralised millions of people in England, should bo allowed to enter this fair land,” continued the Commissioner. Ihe problem should he laced with courage. Even in this generation, we should be brave enough to say with St. Paul, “the man who will not work shall not eat.” He was out. 4or the employment of all who wore looking for work, and hoped the time would speedily arrive wlien every able-bodied man in the Dominion would he employed. Proceeding, the Commissioner said that they could expect matters to ho even worse during the present winter. He had even heard that women in Wellington were sleeping out in the open, “if that is the ease,” he said “whether they are good, bad or iiulifierent. none of us can set' women lying down to sleep On the hare ground. If the Government will find me money. I will undertake to have a shelter erected to accommodate twenty to twenty-live women. There must he no women sleeping out in New Zealand.

The Armv had found, said the Commissioner, that thi‘ best results were obtained in dealing with broken men by placing them on land colonies. Tin* system was now established in England, Norway. Sweden, America, South Africa and Australia. TAILOR ESSES OBJ ECT. * AUCKLAND, April 18. The Auckland Tailoi •esses’ Union is communicating with the Prime -Minister and urging that an embargo he placed 011 the importation of sweated goods, and that dumping should be stopped, also that th" pine" < origin should be marked on all imported wearing apparel. The secretary of the union said that at least TOO women were unemployed In the Auckland tailoring trade.