REMEDY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 6

REMEDY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.

Mr. Mulvihill, in Tuesday's "Star," says that some critics aver that Shaw is talking with his tongue in his cheek. I would like to say, as an admirer of Shaw, that lately I have come to the same conclusion. How is it, at a time like the present, that such men as Sliaw, Ramsay Mac Donald, Philip Snowden, Wells and others, have not come forward with one practical suggestion? When Shaw was asked some time back what he would suggest to do under the present conditions, lie answered that he was 78 years of age, and that it was useless to ask an old man like him to settle problems. The young people would have to settle them for themselves. Now, any old man would have said that. But we expected something different of one who was supposed to have been a leader of thought for about forty years. That there is a solution he was bound to know, so if he was as sincere as most people thought he was, why didn't he throw his weight into the struggle! There is only one remedy for unemployment, and that is shorter working hours. And if such men as Shaw had come out openly and encouraged it, we should probably have had it working, without the world being brought to such a depth of misery and want. I was cheered by the trade union notes of the "Star" by seeing that Hearst, the great American newspaper proprietor, tells us that it is the only thing to be done, and that public opinion demands it. But what a state of misery ths American worker has had to submit to before the remedy is brought forth! M. McLEOD.