THE UNEMPLOYED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 8 June 1909, Page 2

THE UNEMPLOYED.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Nigiht. A meeting of the unemployed was held last night,,when fifty attended. A committee was set up to take whatever steps were considered necessary to ap preach the various local bodies in order to get them to put in hand at once any work that could be done so as to provide inimediate employment for «s many ai possible, and to urge upon them the necessity of doing such work by day labor only. A deputation was set up to wait upon tlhe local M.P's and the IfreI "Vf- ,f fusible, before he left for the I Uid Country, and to upon them the necessity- of dealing at oiice with the unemployed problem. A deputation was also appointed to wait upon the

could. The committee arranged a plan of campaign to be carried ' out during the next few days. The Jlavor lias convened a special meeting ot the works committee to consider the question of the unemployed. The committee will be iwked to take into consideration the possibility of puttiii" nn some men who are at 'prusent in.wnnt of employment. The weather i„ favorable for work being put in hand, but just at "''"f, 1 ' - V T' the Coun '«l lias not a 'gieat deal on hand.