UNEMPLOYMENT.
CABINET’S POLICY CRITICISED. By Telegraph —Press Association. Christchurch,l Last Night. Messrs. Howard, McCombs and Sullivan, Labor members of Parliament, have sent a telegram to Sir Francis Bell protesting against the Government’s action in deliberately creating the unemployment problem for the purpose of forcing down wages, the plan being to dismiss men from public works, curtail expenditure on public buildings, and to cancel authorities for works entrusted to local bodies for expenditure (as the Minister of Public Works said) to prevent such bodies competing with one another for men, plant and material, in order to stabilise conditions and get work done at a correspondingly less capital cost. They decline to believe the Treasury is empty, and contend that the public works fund can be supplemented out of revenue.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1921, Page 5
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128UNEMPLOYMENT. Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1921, Page 5
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