UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13363, 3 March 1909, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT.

TO lIIK EUirOK OF •TUF. TRESS.'"' _ir. —The time has at last come whon j something must be done to provide i mean* of ""production lor the many who ! are at present unemployed. In the j buihiir.g trades aloue nearly 300 men aro idle in this city, many carpenters and joiners looking fruitlessly for work. In face of this circumstance we have remarks from our Ministers every day that this country ia prospering, also advising men that there is work in the country. In years gone by when I was one of the unfortunates looking for work I found Dy hard experience that farmers always made a cry out for men in the harvest time, and then they could give perhaps six men a fortnight's work. When that was done they could live somehow till next year. This winter, by all appearances, will be one of great distress among tho producers of wealth (the i working class). Perhaps then they will

} wake to tho follies of wage earning and j the system of Government. Let every ; mar. ri ineiiibtr Thomas Carlyle's words. : Workers unite, you hare nothing to '■ 10-;e bi!t your chains.—Youis. etc.. j " A. H. PIEHCE.