SINGLE UNEMPLOYED.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 44, 20 August 1895, Page 3

SINGLE UNEMPLOYED.

TO THE BDITOB. Sib — I sea by yonr issue of Ihe 17th " Worker" says don't give employment to single men ; let them go into the eonntry and get work. Now, I am a married man myself. But tbere was a time wben*l waa not so. I know I always liked ft share of the work and the money alto. I suppose " Worker," or nigger driver, came to this country to take what he conld get about the time when ho could demand and get any wane he liked to ask. I ehonld think a man like him, who would offer m«n 10s a week, ought to be ashamed of himself. If he has been in the country the length of time he Eays ho has he ought to be independent, and able to pay men wages. No wonder the men ho had knew how to do nothing. I should not expeat much for 103 myeelf . Give a man a fair wage, and you will find out that 99 men out of every 100 would be able to kill sheep 01 plough, perhaps belter than yourself. 1 wonder would yon like 10s a week ? 1 am, Ac, Not TTnimploted. Wellington, 19th August. TO THX EDITOB. Sjb— As a subscriber to your valuable paper, and knowing that you favour no par. tieulor class, X Bhould feel grateful if yot will insert the following reply to " Worker's ' effusion on the unemployed single men ol New Zealand in your issue of the 17tt inst. Sir, in the first place he evidently expeots that a single man should b( satisfied if he only makes his food, and ai odds times a little clothing, and at the saint time sympathises with the land plunger, as he terms him, owing to low prices of produce, stock, 4c, and high bank interest and doublo commission. He then goes on to tell them they have muoh to learn as regards naeful colonial life, and doubtlesß expects them to build oatstaoks, mow, shear, kill and dress sheep or pigs, along with the general rouseabont work, for the exorbitant salary of from 10s to 15s per week. Be then accuses the unfortunate single unemployed of doing as little work as possible for the highest wages obtainable. Sir, if " Worker " had not applied the c^me rule to bis dealings, viz., spending as little cash as po3oible for the largest ro turns, I doubt whether he would be in a. position to diotito to the unemployed. I will pass over his comparison with the Chinese, but would liko to remind " Worker " that a Britisher's aim is to live, and not to merely exist. I can assure him I am no wonder, yet I oan, and have, earned my living at numerous oocnpations. both in tim and country, and have met with hundreds of unemployed single men who can surpass me, and I doubt whether New Zealand can be beaten for handy experienced single men. Sir, as regards "Worker's" opinion that a singlo man's place is in the country, I claim that be has the some right as his married brother to live in town or country, especially as a bush settler usually marries when he settles down And iv conclusion, owing tc "Worker's" apparent prejudice to single men, I think bo would find the occupation ol boss overseer on a Queensland sugar planta tion, worked by Kanaka labour, more con' genial to him than farming in New Zea'anc with such useless employed. I am, 4o ,