UNEMPLOYED CONTRIBUTIONS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 304, 17 September 1921, Page 3

UNEMPLOYED CONTRIBUTIONS

Sir, —As a member of the community who will eventually be asked and expected to contribute to a general fund for the relief of the unemployed, I would like to express my opinion on the question per medium of your valuable columns.

I think by contributing coin for such * purpose is like pouring water into a jug with the bottom out, viz., while we have a number of idle people hero requiring help, the ranks are continually being added to from overseas per tho medium of our immigration scheme. Therefore, I fail to see what is the use taking donations to try and keep a thing like this going; -heiwo the jug with no bottom. Then again, why should the public, I mean the ordinary wage earner, be continually appealed to for funds? I can assure you. Sir, that tho average family man has very little to spare these times after paying rent, bread and butter, clothing, and, as everybody knows, those four articles alone cost quite a lot. Then add the cost of keeping two or three/children at school well supplied with tho necessary stationery, there is practically nothing left out of five pounds a week.

Therefore, I say, why not try the other portion of the public, the publican, racing clubs, gentlemen’s clubs, and many other circles of moneydtj people, who could if they so desired contribute sufficient money for the relief of the unemployed. I know it is. hard to get them to pay up, but still I think it is up to them to do so and give the common wageearner’s pocket a rest. —I am, etc., S.F.N.