THE UNEMPLOYED—A SUGGESTION

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

THE UNEMPLOYED—A SUGGESTION

Sir,—Your editorial of Saturday is quite right. The unemployed should take what reproductive work can be found for them until timer improve. 1 remember in 1888, when times were just as bad as they are to-day. There was no talk then <of raising loans at a high rate of interest to find work for the unemployed. The men had to camp in parties on the back hills, and clear scrub at 10s. a week and rations; living in tents or wharea according to the size of the job. Thousands, nny scores M thousands, of acres have gone back into scrub (more or less) during the war, and not a tan has been given to keen it under. Such single men who do net want work, and are prepared to face the mumo as independent-minded men, until time* get better, let them form small parties and offer themselves to any o the station owners who will put the on clearing scrub as was done in 1888. Summer is coming on. Six months camping on tho hills will only be a Peasant spell from town, and gradually the men will get into permanent and betterraid work as times improve. Some thousands of men could ho found work in this reproductive manner; and a tar more pleasant life than in the trenches. Ten shillings a week and rations and tents found is equal to 355. these times; at which men should not object until times get better, as they soon will. It •he single men do this it will he much easier for tho married men to be found work near the town,-I