DOLE SYSTEM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 6, 6 December 1930, Page 9

DOLE SYSTEM.

ABUSE IN ENGLAND. AUCKLAND MAN’S VIEWS. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 6. “Unless England does away with the pernicious dole system, one can hold only a dismal view of her future,” said Mr R. McVeagh, who has just returned from a health trip from England and the Continent.

Mr McVeagh said that of the countries he visited France showed the greatest signs of recovery from the effects of the war, while Italy was also in a sound position.

“England’s economic position is really deplorable,” said Mr McVeagh. “Gross abuses are perpetrated under the dole system, men and women deliberately abstaining from work in order to receive maintenance.” This accounted for the large number of unemployed persons in Great Britain. On the other hand, France had only 870 on the unemployed register two months ago. _ Italy also was in a for : tunate position, as Signor Mussolini had stipulated that the unemployed must work in order to obtain money. A large number of public works were in process in Italy. “New Zealand should profit by the lesson, and care should be taken that no money is paid to an idle man,” said Mr McVeagh. Once a beginning is made in paying the dole, the receiver loses all sense of self-respect and comes to look upon what is really charity as something to which he is entitled.