ENGLAND TO-DAY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 April 1925, Page 8

ENGLAND TO-DAY.

THOUSANDS UN EMPLOYED

‘'THE CURSE OF THE DOLE.”

ALAN UFACTUR4NG LOAFERS. ’’

“There is no place that I touched that can compare with New Zealand .lor the worker,” said a New Zealander who has just' returned to the Dominion The gentleman has only returned after spending several months abroad, and in the course of conversation conditions for the worker in Fin gland at the present time were never worse. In all the towns there were thousands of unemployed, but even many of them would not take a job if it were offered them. “The curse of England is the dole, lor there are thousands of young fellows who prefer the dole of LBs a week rather than take on work. At the most only casual employment is offering, and it is pretty hard to get a man to do a couple of days’ work. They figure it out that two days at 10s only means £l, and carries, with it the loss of dole for that week, so that they really do two days’ work for 2s. “Anybody who is unemployed can secure 'the' dole. As soon as a man gets out of work he is supplied by one of the labour offices with a card. All he lias to do then is to call at half-a-dozen places and ask for work, and each time the firm stamps the card to sav that the applicant has called. Once the card is sufficiently stamped the person'to whom it was issued is entitled to the dole! Nothing could tend to create a country of loafers more. “Then, again, even the factory workers are not doing their honest day’s work. The union officials have drilled it into the workers that the more work they do the more money it puts into the pocket of the employers, but the wages of the employees are not increased. in a woollen factory at Huddersfield I was told that the employees do not put in lour hours’ work a clay, although they are there from morning till evening. All over England it is the same, and the workers are the ones suffering.

“It is not surprising that they should want to come to New Zealand!” “No, the surprise is that more immigrants do not come here'... Alin'd you, from what I could learn, those responsible for many of the people coming out arc inclined to paint a rather too rosy picture of the Dominion. Even so. the worst town or country here is a, long way ahead of any part of England for the worker. There) is really up pqvertv or luirdshin in the Dominion'. and my advice to those here is to stop here.” —N.Z. Times.