UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 247, 12 October 1908, Page 2

UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN.

ITS UNDERLYING CAUSE. FXNWNU THJi KE.UIiDI. Sl'EKl'll BY WINNJ'ON CUUIitHILI.. lUteiviHl 11, ■»■!.) p.m. Oclobor 10. Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at .Dundee, and discussing the underlying cause of uueuijdoynient, enumerated various unhealthy industrial condition* which must be attacked in ui\irr in j iind a remedy. This would oniail bp\> I ciai measures of a social aad equally I economic character, currying us into new and untrodden holds of British po- | iitics. lie enumerated the lack of any .central organisation of industry, or any general concerted control of ordinary (Jovernment work, or of exlraordiuary relief works. The Board 01 Trade might .'slinmle the degree of unemployment in any winter, and some oifiee should arrange the distribution of (Jovernment contract* accordingly, ov expand certain, uncompetitive work like afforestation. Air. Churchill condemned the gross and increasing evil of

and hoy labor. The evil of under-employed was. he sairl. the saproot of unemploymcjwt. He hinted that casual unskilled labor was not the result of accident, but the result of economic causes too long unregulated. It Riioitld bo manufactured into an article required to suit the convenience oJ industries at particular times. Practicable means existed for a great dtmuniI tion of this evil. Until they reached I 18 years, every hoy and girl ought to

be learning a trade as well as earning a living. lie believed that thousands of wealthy people wfre willing to make the necessary sacrifice to secure more elaborate social organisation.