Unemployment
Sir, —One is grateful to the 27 social workers for writing (November 27) with inside knowledge in defence of the unemployed who are deprived of the dignity of earning their keep, forced on the dole by deliberate National economic policy. To add insult to injury, the selfsame policy-makers trot out the tired old allegation that the unemployed do not want to work. They ignore all evidence to the contrary: dozens, even hundreds, applying for one job in desperate search for work. Has it ever occurred to the accusers that under Labour we had full employment? Everybody went to work as a matter of course. Then why, with the change of Government, should hundreds, then thousands, down tools and refuse to work? It does not make sense. Perhaps it. speaks for New Zealanders’ sense of justice and compassion that those vocal against the unemployed, Bert Walker and Colleen Dewe, were not re-elected. — Yours, etc., MARGARET MAYER. November 27, 1978.
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