CANADA’S UNEMPLOYED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21802, 6 June 1936, Page 24

CANADA’S UNEMPLOYED

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —Those who had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Lang’s lecture on Canada were presented with a magnificent picture of our sister Dominion. Beautiful cities with their numerous schools, colleges, churches, public buildings, and warehouses. Railways linking up east with west, north with south. Trains filled with passengers or loaded with grain or metal. Sumptuous railway stations and hotels throughout the length and breadth of an immense territory. A country of unlimited «potentialities, unbounded scope and promise of material well being, and so vast in extent in proportion to the population that New Zealand seems overcrowded by contrast. And then to spoil the whole picture the significant fact: more than 1,000,000 unemployed, and all the privation and misery that this entails for a large proportion of- the population. What is the use of the Premier’s flowery and patriotic greetings to the people of New Zealand? Have all these hundreds of colleges produced no men with constructive ideas? # Are Canada’s able and intelligent administrators baffled in the face of a problem that nature has supplied the amplest means of solving? •Dr. Lang, who is a rpan of the utmost goodwill, could only suggest that 'prosperity could be attained by hard work. What a hollow mockery to offer to men who are eating their heart out to be given the opportunity of working! Magnificent scenery is all well enough in its way, but men and women are of more account than mountains and forests. Ir Dr. Lang had been able to bring to the people of New Zealand an inspiring account of what Canada is doing to solve the problem that is common to both Dominions. he would have conferred a real benefit on New Zealand.—Yours, etc., ANALYST. June 3, 1936.