YOUTHS OUT OF WORK

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22136, 5 July 1937, Page 6

YOUTHS OUT OF WORK

to tum r.niToa or taa pbcsa Sir, —One cannot help but feel disappointed at the remarks made at the Chamber of Commerce at its last meeting about youths out of work. The manner in which 5000 youths of this Dominion have been sacrificed on the altar of militant unionism, as a result of the basic wage, ought surely to call for the strongest condemnation from such a responsible body as the Chamber of Commerce. For the president to state, “I sometimes feel that the labour unions are hard upon those boys” is surely an extremely mild way of protesting against the grave injustice meted out to these young men.

One would have thought that an organisation of this kind, which surely sees the seriousness of this legislation, would have entered a vigorous protest. To my mind, the apparent apathy with which the community has allowed these young men to be dealt with fills one with the gravest misgiving. For the president to state "that he did not* suppose the Government would do anything if the labour unions were unsympathetic" is surely not the way to approach this matter. Whether anything good results or not, the strongest indignation should be registered against such a deplorable slate of things as exists at the present time. That we only get the Government we deserve is exemplified by the sbove attitude.—Yours, etc., SCRUTATOR. July 3, 1937.