Unemployment
Sir,—l have sincerely intended my contribution to these columns to be politically unbiased. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of all parties, I find myself at election time selecting the least of several evils and not supporting an ideal. Trade unions are a key factor. Disagreeing with our present Government, they nevertheless supply candidates for safe seats. Although we applaud our unions for establishing and extending the best possible conditions of work, wages and justice for members, we must deplore the regularity with which industrial action has caused disruption, distress, and expense to citizens. The availability of public services and commodities should be ensured if humanly possible. Jim Knox should realise that there could be far more effective means of preserving workers’ standard of living than the annual wage
round, which always leaves us all x worse off. Workable pre-war youth rates, allowing for experience and skill, could ease unemployment — Yours, etc., TED MULCOCK. May 11, 1987.
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