A COMPLAINT.
I would just like to let the public j know what the unemployed have to put up with. An advertisement appeared in the "Star"' asking for hands in a certain industry. As my mate and I had done that work before (for the same firm) we thought that wo would try our luck. We got up at six o'clock and arrived at the place where we had to apply at twenty minutes to seven. We were Like ii: . there. After about a:i I ur'fl wait, a , man came out with a pad a:::? p?nHl and started looking over the crowd and j . ing one out here and there. After lil had got about 25 or CO names he went back inside, and we had to wait about another quarter of an ; hour. When he came out again he repeated what he done the first time, and then told the rest of us that that was all he wanted. Now, sir, don't you think that the first there should have been given a chance? He told us that he had to take on only » union men. I know five men who got a : job who were not union men. and who : were at the back of the crowd. s GIVE US A CHANCE. > —
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1927, Page 16
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214A COMPLAINT. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1927, Page 16
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