LONDON UNEMPLOYED.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1921, Page 5

LONDON UNEMPLOYED.

POSITION GRAVE.

MILLION AND A HALF IDLE.

TRADE REVIVAL NEEDED.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

London, Sent. 3.

The Press takes a grave view of the position with respect to unemployment. The Sunday Tinies regards this question. just as pressing as that of Ireland, and likely to engross the attention of the Cabinet at Inverness in addition to the Irish reply. Unemployment may necessitate the reassembling of Parliament to deal with the increasingly urgent and alarming situation before winter sets in. There are one and a half million unemployed in England. “It is an unparalleled problem menacing us with a wider and deeper sea of misery than ever. The situation must end, or it will end us.”

The Sunday Times and other journals are concerned as to where the remedy lies. It is generally agreed that the dole system must go and be replaced by a constructive policy of relief works, but the root of the problem is finance. The finance of the impoverished and overtaxed country cannot stand additional taxation, but the Observer bluntly declares “The money must be found. The coming winter will test the whole strength of the representative system.” Newspapers agree that palliative measures are. a temporary expedient, and that the only real remedy lies in the revival of British trade. Unftunately there are little present signs of this. CO-OPERATION IN PRODUCTION. London, Sept. 3. • The Observer does not expect any appreciable uplift or decrease in unemployment before next June. The real cure lies in the discovery of the means of co-operation, which is essential amongst those engaged in production. The paper urges the Trade Union Congress next week to seize the opportunity. The immediate problem for British industry is, “How are we to s?ll our goods abroad?” If the congress can bring about some interim pact, or truce, between capital and labor it will do more for the happiness of the workers than any Parliament.