TO END UNEMPLOYMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 171, 21 July 1936, Page 6

TO END UNEMPLOYMENT.

Your correspondent, M. ,T. Howes, offers a logical solution to the unemployment problem. Suppose the workless were permitted to serve each other instead of being compelled to accept what is called relief. Among the unemployed there must be artisans of all kinds, including carpenters, bricklayers, contractors,® builders, etc. If a portion of the money now being spent on relief were utilised in purchasing land and materials and properly financing an organisation which would permit this .vast army of jobless people to serve each other, how long would it take them to become self-supporting and independent? Xot a long time, I am sure. Such a movement would necessarily have to include every electoral district and adequate finance to provide the facilities for handling the volume of business that would develop would lie necessary. Xo one would work more than fix hours a day or live days a week, and all could be paid a standard wage. Such a plan would automatically put an end to all unemployment and • put an end to relief funds from Government, State and municipal agencies. It would remove unnecessary enormous taxes and relieve the industrial situation bv taking thousands of people out of the competitive race for employment. It would inevitably bring independence of thought and action. I\ 11. PEARSOX.