UNEMPLOYMENT FUND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 913, 5 March 1930, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT FUND

COMMITTEE’S SCHEME FAVOURED EFFECT OF IMMIGRATION Press Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, Mr. F. Campbell, stated today concerning the report of the special committee on unemplovment that the proposals for the establishment of a fund, to which all should subscribe, seemed the best solution of the problem, and one that was worth a trial. The establishment of an unemployment board could easily be included in the scope of the proposed Development of Industries Board, which was proposed some months ago by the Manufacturers’ Federation. A subcommittee from that board would be well able to attend to the work. The remuneration offered, even if the board sat five days a week, equalled £SOO a year, and would not attract the best of the men available. “It is a pity,” said Mr. Campbell, “that the committee did not go into the question of how immigration affects unemployment. There are those who believe that only when immigration is again in full swing will prosperity come—that is, rightly selected and rightly guided immigration. The committee promised to report on this phase, but evidently later decided not 10. The report, however, is an honest attempt to do something to set right the evil. “What is the Government going to do with the proposals?” Mr. Campbell asked. “Surely another winter, with all its distress and uneconomical employing of the unemployed, will not be allowed. Let us try some method and see if the position can be improved.”