SINGLE MEN AND WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 9, 12 January 1932, Page 8

SINGLE MEN AND WORK

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Olio must take strong objection tol the latest instructions of the Unemploy* ment Board, to the.effect that after 13thi of February single men will be given no ■work. .The single men have been forced for the Jast few months to exist, on a wage which on an average comes to about 12s to 13s per week. - After' payment o£ room rent there is about 4s left for food. Surely it must be admitted that it is impossible to live on these wages, yefc the charitable aid boards say that no onai is starving. Well, day in andday out, I am forced to go hungry at meal-times, or 'maybe sit down to a cup of tea and. bread. The Unemployment Board tries to justify itself by saying that the moneyis not wages, but to-day there are no avenues of work to supplement the relief work wages. --Let the Unemployment Board and the Charitable Aid Board give up this feigning that everybody is being catered for. The camp schemes are doomed to failure, because they are based on economic fallacies and do ttot take into consideration the toJerance of the human being. The "no sustenance without work" policy is now a failure (10,000 without work). As the winter approaches tb» unemployed will increase to such an extent that the Government will have ta do as every other country has had to da —that is, pay out sustenance. Let tha Government immediately save from starvation by paying sustenance.—l am, etc., THOMAS KELLY.