UNEMPLOYMENT UNDER CAPITALISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 143, 19 June 1922, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT UNDER CAPITALISM.

.~fo tbe Editor, i Sir, —I would like to support Mr. C. P.. W. Longdill in disputing the remark about unemployment made 'by Mr. Bloodworth before the Rotary Club, that "within the capitalist system there was no cure for it." In "private ownership" of land, and industries, we have the source of the "values" that make our "capitalist system" possible. It is this "individual ownership" of things that makes it possible to create and maintain "civilisation" with the human material now available on this carth — material composed of stuff lacking that "generous spirit" you say is needed in house letting. If the world is allowed to function under "individualism" and "private ownership" of everything that it is possible for individuals to own, we shall develop the "generous spirit" necessary to reach a higher plane of civilisation much sooner than if wo bolster up the "State ownership*' ideal— w<hich is only a "dream" that can never become solid material. When once we have this "individualistic" plan in working order, the "inducement to work" and earn a "competence" will foe so great that every person in the world will soon get "spending power," but will not, as at present, curtail the "producing power" of humanity trnd compel people to starve while there should be abundance for everybody, and everybody anxious to do something "useful to "others" as well as himself.—l am, etc., A. SANFORD.