WORK FOR ALL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14167, 15 September 1906, Page 2

WORK FOR ALL.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —For callousness and exaggeration commend me to the effusion of the Minister of Public Works which appeared in the “Lyttelton Times” of September 13. Does not the honourable gentleman know perfectly well that there are hundreds of willing workers who are physically incapable of navvy work on railways? He has got a. Jolly good screw himself, and can live very well in spite of the fajnine prices for food, with a prospect of still higher prices, thanks to that Godsend the Exhibition, I know the poor fellow Weeks, who is reported as missing, well. He is totally unable to do hard labouring work, and there are scores like him. The German Labour Bureau and its Melbourne Agency transmit unemployed to where workers are needed,.

and see that .the work is suitable to the physical strength of the worker. Why does not the Government instruct its Commissioner at Home to warn immigrants against coming out here. The Government’s imperative duty is to at once provide suitable employment for out of works at a living wage.—l am, etc., RADICAL.