THE UNEMPLOYED.
TO THE EDITOft.
Sir,—Thia trouble ia again to the.front. I suppose there is some reason for it get*, ting worse each year. I think the extensive use of labour-saving machinery has a deal to do with it. Wo find it extensively used in all manufacturing businesses, and consequently ousting labour. I think few people will deny that it has a disastrous effect 'on the labour market, and in consequence, our workers are unable to buy the necessaries of life. Some people say that machinery is a blessing aa it cheapens all the articles wo require. But I think it matters very little to an idle man how cheap things are when he has no money to buy them with. The ordinary workman, prefers paying a fair price for the articles, ho wants, providing he is working. I think it vary poor policy to dispense with bone and sinew for machinery. Man is a producer as well as a consumer; the machine consumes nothing to epeak of, and I think that accounts for over-production. Besides, it is slowly pauperising cut working classes. It was labour-saving machines that were the means of sending respectable men to the Charitable® Aid office quite, lately for help, and finally,! consider them, our greatest enemies.—-I am, &c., ;i UNEMPLOYED. •
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10651, 11 May 1895, Page 3
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