SUBSIDISED FARM WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1932, Page 4

SUBSIDISED FARM WORK

.Alarm is expressed by :"Observer'' at : ,countryv,repa ring, fences, :eto* |£ y^^could^e.teken of--the'*cheirie^But ».?*.? a-fair>thing : .tUat" the brdinarc'abd :"*<-«tP-aWd come,under tMs^atSy * /What would be.therposition if- No?? 4 scheme wa^not^existence? " The fiirn> .era vrpuld geft this work' done in the iS? way^/Vymnd^tbe- fair, for- -e£p% e S the ;cities .and :• townr*o • rely. up*?So 4 ment Board to Jtefep' their businessef the^lves?^ltjrajwell;-fcnown^ it@ -.thotfsandß'^ore unemployed' in «£t F^?-vand t o;ir _ ns it^ ni^ the country T? ; is; ; equally well;-known; thaf>the^S of 'the money collected under the tax i" froW workers, business men, retired^en and superannuated men -.in the cities and tmvns.;;Are the-local bodies-and assb^otions'tojbe.expected to.keep. these arS pf^menioing Avhilst the bulk of theS collected .is gomg to the'counti-y to feen farms going? , Is 'there: not a danger 1 of.*he,:Bystem becommg perman- • -t lt; Yd *°bb c looked upon'as; dole.';,ls there to be noire-1 Jiei to the numprpiis^old.people who have' saved niopey to live on,- superanmiated. men,; retired business.' men etc' who, can never, hope, to receive anything fronrthe fund but rare compeUe'd to con^ tmuo, their paynients.to it in addition to' having to foot the1 bill for' heavy ratesand other city and town demands? I may be putting a •wrong constrHCtibn" upon' things, : but circumstances point to the position being as stated." " ' ;! .'Wi'iting on the'samo subject, : f'Es-Farm: Hand".l; states that hundreds of> country'l workers have been driven away, from the country through the unfair- competitionl' of-the Unemployment Board in. supply ing labour for farmer's. "How can farm wdrki ers .compete with'the'labour supplied' by the 'board? By thrifty/Jiying- hundreds o£ ns have:saved soifie money bo as to buy. our own small farms,N'dnd we'can' do cdi but, depend on work from,the farmers to keep us. going/ ■ Some of us have already small.homes in the country," but now the board.has robbed us of our work from the farmers. Farmers are like everyone else if they can get labour free—they take'that labour in preference'to employing a financial farm hand. My last master dispensed with my labour so as to take advantage of the board's cheap labour. I could not sign up on the board inquiry sheet."