WOMEN'S UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20956, 9 September 1933, Page 19

WOMEN'S UNEMPLOYMENT TAX

mi i irn r.rmon or the cess Sir,—Nothing can be made to be so misleading as figures—they are excellent aids in the flinging of dust. This £750,000 that the Labour candidate for Lyttelton speaks bo much about as being the amount paid by women in unemployment tax—upon what authority does she base these figures and whence derive them? Are they not computed from a Year Book that refers to a time before the depression—to a time when all factories were working at full capacity of output and employment, and so not truly illustrative of the position? Is it not a fact that statistics have not yet been issued on which to base statements as to the amount paid by women in emergency unemployment tax? I assure the Labour candidate for Lyttelton that they are not alone in their interest in, and sympathy with unemployed women. Was the Labour candidate asked to join the Women s Unemployment Committee? Has she ever come forward to help that committee, even with advice? She quotes the money help given to unemployed women, but does she not know that in addition there are provided roomrent, meals, and clothing? In the last a small charge has lately been made to those who can afford it. outfits are provided where necesjaryto girls going to positions. The Government may not be able to provide for all that is wanted, but at least itaoes So all that September 8, 1933.