Unemployment
Sir,—Before Christmas Mr Skinner announced that, entirely on his own initiative, without the knowledge of his closest associates, be had prepared calculations for increases In wages and salaries The position of many an unemployed man in 1968, especially in Christchurch, is conceivably due to that action. The problem of any increases in costs in 1968-69 must have retarded or even folded up enterprises of all varieties. In a national crisis it was possible that the majority were unafraid of tightening belts for a while. Mr Skinner implied: “1 am afraid you cannot do that” Or was he afraid they would? Mr Kirk hopes unemployment will bring him to power and declares he can cure it Labour first dealt with unemployment in March 1936. In August 1939, on payment day, there was still a long queue of unemployed in Hereford Street outside, and packing inside, the Social Security offices Could he better that?—Yours. etC ” A. B. CEDARIAN. May 10, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 12
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