“WORK IS THE CURE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 7

“WORK IS THE CURE”

MANUFACTURER'S ATTITUDE TO UNEMPLOYMENT DEVELOPING INDUSTRIES ••If w-e developed the farming and manufacturing industries together with that great industry, the tourist traffic, we would have no unemplov jnent.” So said Mr. G. Finn, president of the Auckland Manufacturers’ Association, at yesterday's meeting. "Some people think the cause of unemployment is something obscure and beyond our control. Actually, the cure is work.” The discussion arose out of a letter received from the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association asking Auckland support in a proposed letter to the Prime Minister, urging that the proposed Development of Industries Board should be gone on with. The motion was refrained to read •That the Au' kland Manufacturers’ Association approve of a letter being sent to the Prime Minister suggesting that the proposed Development of Industries Board is the most suitable authority to control any fund raised and to be spent under any unemployment insurance law.” and was supported by the meeting. Mr. Fin i said the manufacturers, v.ho employed the most labour, would be called upon to contribute the greatest amount to any unemployment fund. The chairman and Mr. Mills Palmer were reappointed the association’s delegates to a further conference called by the Chamber of Commerce lor March 20 to consider the unemployed insurance scheme.