ENGLAND’S WEALTH ROTTING

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 4 November 1933, Page 14

ENGLAND’S WEALTH ROTTING

“WE are allowing ithe wealth of | England to ,ro‘t before out eyes,” said Dr. A. D. Lindsay, master of Ball.io'l, at the Conference of Occupation Centres. “The wealth of England lies in the organisation, independence, initiative and .skill of its great workingclass population. I am appalled by the loss to the organised social structure of working-class life which results when unemployed men are uhab'le to retain their membership of (their tirade unions. “The trade unions ate confronted' with an entirely new situation and I

Losing Initiative of Workers

|do not think They realise it or are grappling with at. If an unemployment centre is nothing but a recreational centre, it as nothing but dope. I visited one centre which has been in existence for, two years and when I a'sked what the men did there I was told that they played draughts. Fancy playing draughts for two years! Anything more like Hell 1 cannot imagine. No decent man wants to play games the whole time. Of course, it you do it professionally it becomes a job, and that is a different matter. . But to set unemployed men playing games all the time is rather Worse than nothing.”