THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.
CABLE NEWS.
By Electric Telegraph.-Copyright]
(pbb press association,) (Received 14,10.35 p.m.) Sydney, March 14. The Government will shortly appoint a Board to deal with the unemployed. It is proposed to separate the three classes, viz., skilled artisans, aged artisans and old persons unable to work, and habitual loafers. Efforts will be made to secure the employment of the first class at their own trades; the second class will be employed on the butty gang principle, with seven shillings per day as a wage basis, while any surplus will be accommodated for a State farm; loafers to be sent to a penal farm and compelled to work for a living,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 54, 15 March 1900, Page 3
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112THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 54, 15 March 1900, Page 3
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