UNEMPLOYMENT QUESTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 19, 16 February 1909, Page 2

UNEMPLOYMENT QUESTION

MEETING IN WELLINGTON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Wellington, Last Night. A meeting to consider tho question of [ unemployed was held in the Town Hail ; this evening, the Mayor presiding. The limn ignition policy yf. tile Government wa condeimiel andi the providing of work for the unemployed by the Government advocated. A motion was passed protesting against the continuance of the assisted immigration policy, and requesting the Government to make known in Great Britain the present, overcrowded state of the labor market.. Also, as a means of relieving the difficulty, the Government be requested topush on the construction of publicworks already authorised throughout the Dominion. It was also resolved! that as a menus of providing employment and relieving the congestion im the cities, the Government be requested: to inaugurate an up-to-date land development policy, pushing on roading auii fencing, and otherwise improving vacant t'vown lands, thus providing a mora, sji.tisl'aiiory busw of land eettlemei*, and giving added employment to t)' ie people. Another .motion was passed urgi* gtlio immediate issue off State notes t 0 , p ro . vide for flit* vigorous prosecution of .public works, the development oi mnQ settlement and the expansion of our ~r j m . ary Industries. A resolntir jn waß a is o passed urging the Govevr t0 s0 shaue their admiutstiaf lon to speedily facilitate the. transition of the menlis of life from. »,rivate ownership for purposes of pMir.t to public ownership for use.