UNEMPLOYMENT
TO THE EDITOR 07 THE PRESS. Sir—May I be permitted to express a few thoughts on the unemployment question in New Zealand? The promise of the Labour politicians that, if elected they would abolish all unemployment, is still ringing in our ears; but after six years of prosperity, we hear the Hon. R. Semple stating that in Christchurch alone there are 1800 “scroungers”, living on the public purse while farmers and public works are unable to get men. . It seems that they are living very well, too, on the public purse. I understand that 190 men are on the No. 13 scheme lopping They had three weeks’: holiday at Christmas on full-pay' arid'on the last Friday in January, after they had been at work a few days, they held their “annual picnic," if you please,-on full pay again. Do the powers that be consider it is fair play to pay these men, or what Mr Semple calls “scroungers.” 18s 8d a day, wet and fine, holidays or work days, while good, honest tradesmen lose their pay if it is wet? Why, it is ridiculous, and yet it goes on, and so do our taxes. We need a strong man at the head of affairs in Wellington, for the men are not to;blame, but the authority that allows such a state of affairs. — Yours, etc., ANOTHER NEW ZEALANDER. February 6; 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23248, 7 February 1941, Page 12
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