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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 187, 8 August 1919, Page 9

HANDICAPPED BY AGE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —"Industrial Tramp's" par. "After a Man is Fifty," is quite true, bat he has been a long time finding it out. He only writes about the well-to-do workers. The result of the present system of labour legislation is to put all the work into the hands of the fit, and the co-called Labour leaders do not care what happens to the rest. It is not surprising the Labour candidates get little support at elections—that is one reason. Returned soldiers have little to complain of, with pensions, etc., and assistance to learn a trade, with £3 a week to start. They are getting all the soft jobs, and tit men, too. What are all the elderly and unfit men to do —starve or go to the Charitable Aid Board? If the Government are going to give all the jobs to one class of men, jit the expense of another class, they ehould give us the old age pension, which is small enough in any ease, and a great deal less than'the military pensions. Elderly men are offered small wages when there is no award, and they are sweated.—l am, etc., UNFIT.