The Unemployed.
A DESPERATE SITUATION.
Rondon, May 31. Parliament has adjourned to June 7th, Prior to the adjournment the Rabour members heckled the Government respecting the delay in assisting the unemployed. Mr Barnes stated that 800,000 willing workers were idle.
Mr Walters advised a return to the system of apprenticeship, and an entire revision of jelementary school methods which gave boys a smattering of all sorts without practical benefit. It would be more humane to shoot on Salisbury plain thousands of unemployed than to leave them to tramp the streets.
Mr Will Thorne said that if the Government did nothing he advised the unemployed to adopt Mr John Barnes' suggestion in 1886 - and go and help themselves. Mr Keir Hardie said the revival, of apprentices would soon secure an eight-hour day. Government ought to grant a million towards the unemployed.
Mr Barnes stated that 95 per cent of the unemployed were unskilled labourers, and 90 per cent were town labourers who had been displaced by strdnger-bred country men. Parliament must devise .some return to the apprenticeship system. It was better to prevent men leaving the land than to place s demoralised townsmen on the land.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3655, 5 June 1906, Page 2
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195The Unemployed. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3655, 5 June 1906, Page 2
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