SAVING AND SPENDING
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The question of how to find means to pay wages, even comparatively small wages, is the whole root of our unemployment trouble. There is plenty of work that could be undertaken if the means were forthcoming. We are advised to practise thrift and yet we spend over £8,000,000 in intoxicating liquors, an increase of over half a million being registered last year. There is more profitable thrift possible in this respect than any other, so I suggest that everyone should cut this expenditure in half (in my own case it is cut out altogether). It is probably too much to expect it to be cut right out just yet, but make it a rule to go so far and no further. If this suggestion were given effect to there would be a lot more pay in most men's pockets, and they could well afford to keep any hotel and brewery employers in comfort, and still be nearly four million pounds to the good.—l am, etc.," S. O'BRIETY.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 112, 8 November 1930, Page 8
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174SAVING AND SPENDING Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 112, 8 November 1930, Page 8
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