THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 39, 16 February 1928, Page 6

THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM.

AN UNFORTUNATE TItP W Vf^ (To the Editor.) ' I notice in the City Council's winA* •■' cussions with regard to" the proposed - • against unemployment the continual to its adoption as degrading. It ig that choice of suitable nomenclature recently been a source of some tranM. i politicians and has led to awkward In this particular instance, the name admSt?' is particularly ludicrous, as it oonvey„ the opposite meaning to that employment insurance!" '•Pernofti.i ployment!" What a joy to the course, the term is applied in the usual mJ. " as for fire, life, etc., but is misleading »n^' ; ■ theless. The excuse for the use of "dole" would entirely disappear if the was dubbed "Employment assurance." < name tersely conveys the intention to • employment, not to insure against em-* ment. I would suggest an extremely ' ■ permanent levy or tax on the whole earning population, on incomes above afoS ? minimum of, say, one penny per week or = term, to be paid under penalty for : into the P.O. Savings Bank as a Natknri Employment Assurance Fund, the " be wisely invested. I have no doubt that tk resultant amount, swelled by voluntary html '' contributions from public-spirited indivSSu ? and also by bequests, would be a great^S--more than sufficient, as in prosperoal'"ttS^- r ,• there would be little drain on it. SYMPATHY."