THE UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEME.
I read with much interest in. one of your leaders last week the comments on the decision of the Unemployment Board to subsidise any temporary work anyone could put in- hand, which certainly sounds quice good. But have the promoters of this idea given a thought of how it will work out in practice? Has the committee made any provisions in the matter of protecting the large number of men who, up to now, have been able to scrape a hare existence by doing a day, or half a day, a week, fortnight, or month, at regular jobs? Why should an employer pay a "man 14/-for a day in the garden, or any other work, when he, by simply applying to the Labour Bureau, can get a mail, or as luaay nien as desired, at a cost to hltu of only 7/ a day? It appears to me that the worker in this case is certainly paying for the stick that is to thrash him. CONFUSION.
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Auckland Star, 2 January 1931, Page 6
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