REDUCTION PLAN

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1933, Page 6

REDUCTION PLAN

FOR MEN ON NUMBER 5 SCHEMA

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CHRISTCHURCH, December 18. The Christchurch Unemployment Committee, to-day carried the following resolution:— ' ~ “This committee is strongly of c opinion that it is essential to reduce the number of men employed on >e No 5 -Scheme as early as possible. Lae Committee therefore requests the Unemployment Board, in conjunction with the Public Works Department to consider the possibility of the Foment of standard rates on certain public l works to be approved by tlm Board; the Government .be invited to forward a list of such public; works to tlie Board. A’’'- 'A , “Farther, Ith at the sustenance clauses in the Unemployment- Act be put into operation ns far as unemployable men are concerned.

unemployed at home

LONDON, December 17. Fourteen hundred unemployed men in Garn Valley (Wales), mostly miners formed a club and co-operatively bought a small colliery plot of « which is worked as allotments,. and tare 'also started a hoot repairing shop. Two hundred and fifty arc non working in the tpinejor a few horns A week, for which eaph -receives 1* liundredweight of cSaU -Boot shop repairing for J!WW (““A'TAv Tor Is fid per for men s, la 3d women’s JVgW '