UNEMPLOYMENT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l have read in the "Tribune” several complaints from correspondents regarding men who, employed during the day. take jobs as extra work at nights, particularly as an example the ushers doorkeepers and ticket sellers at the theatres and suggesting that these men should leave these night iobs to the unemployed. Now, on first sight to man' this will seem quite logical, but Just let me print out that these positions, though perhaps of only a menia’ nature, are certainly positions of trust. This is no reflection cast on the unemployed, but it is just a fact, and applies to both employed and uneniploy: <l. The men now holding .these pwjtioua are tried men and

surely it is any employer’s privilege to select his own employees, I certainly sympathise with the unemployed but I also admire any man who is always prepared to add to his income. I would finally point out that though these positions have to be filled right through the year, this noise onlv arises in the winter time, which surelv means that only a percentage of labour is looking for two jobs a day.—l am, etc,, “A CRITIC WHO SEES BOTH SIDES.” Hastings. 25/6/28.