UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT.
Surely the statement that this fund has in hand the sum of £100,000 should be written in "tears of blood." This amount has been wrung from the poor unfortunate unemployed by nothing more or less than the sweating system, the Government knowing full well that the destitute cannot complain. Instead of paying the moderate sum of 13/6 per week to average people for whom they cannot find employment, which is little enough, they calmly reduce it to 11, and even threaten to take it away altogether and offer nothing in its stead but starvation. Let vis hope that the consciences of the Government Ministers will reproach them and encourage them to do the right thing by the unemployed, in return for the heavy taxation of the employed. ■ OVER AGE.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 237, 6 October 1932, Page 23
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131UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 237, 6 October 1932, Page 23
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