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Foliowing protracted discussions between Cabinet and the Unemployment Board, the Prime Minister has announced details of new schemes designed to create employment and at the same time provide the workless with some of the necessaries of life whieh they must find difficult to obtain on their relief allowances. The fundamental principle of the scheme is that some of the unemployed shall be working for each other insteac. of wasting their time on the ordinary kinds of relief work. A start is to be made with the manufacture of boots for distribution among the unemployed. The order is to be given to factories in the hope that they wil employ operatives who have been forced into the arms of the Unemployment Board. I While it is pleasing to know that the unemployed are to have certain things they need, the most important feature of the scheme is that it recognises for the first time the simple truth that one effective way of easing unemployment is by putting skilled workers back into the trades from which they have been forced by the depression. From the beginning, the disma.. futility of other methods of dealing with the problem has ! been apparent. Once the Governj ment and the Unemployment ! Board admit that there shoulc. j be a struggle toward the rehabi ' ilitation of these men in their
j i own trades, the unemployment j outlook must improve immedii ately. If a portion of the money j | which was spent last year on the j No. 5 scheme had been used to subsidise industry, many Inen j would now have been back in their familiar occupations. Since unemployment in a serious form will exist in the Dominion for j another year at least, it is desirj able that the policy of the pas should be substantially modified. 1 The basic principle of the latest j scheme can be widely applied, j and, if it is, the unemployment administrators will be able to j prove that they possess vision | and wisdom beyond that with [ which they have so far been eredited.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 530, 13 May 1933, Page 4
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348A SOUND SCHEME Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 530, 13 May 1933, Page 4
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