UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

Evening Star, Issue 20635, 7 November 1930, Page 9

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

TO THB BDITOJt. gii-j—In your edition of the stb inst. the mayor states that his committee is co-operating with the Charitable Aid Board to prevent overlapping. The food served out at the Dowling street depot is much appreciated, and only sufficient to last two or three days. It work is unavailable at the so-called labour exchange, where does the overlapping come in? The Charitable Aid Board should make up the balance or necessary food in families, especially where children need it. Many returned soldiers are starving, demoralised by war effects and this unemployment misery, which is worse. As the Poppy Day funds are not sufficient to provide more than a few weeks’ work, and the country owes the men this return duty of seeing none of them should ever be in want, the mayor should turn his attention to more equalisation of work of a municipal kind and on reserves, and give a spell to some of those who are never unemployed and could well afford to stand by. The unemployed, to supplement their food supplies, have every right to seek help from the Charitable Aid Board when they require it to prevent “ umloi lapping ’’ and its subsequent worry and illhealth.—l am, etc., B. E. Kite. November 6.