UNEMPLOYMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17964, 14 December 1921, Page 12

UNEMPLOYMENT.

Sir,-*-WKy does unemployment* exist in. a country: like thisi' The.-, real, reason: is. th'atVa higher price is askedj for labour, than; it is worth; . Surely: the. worbera. fiava braini enough' to see: that, no one.-who- is. notxompeiled; to,, will' pay more for labour, than; any. possible•return, -such- labour, wilL givei Trades' iinibnß,. Arbitration Courts,, andi other methods may be. usedl for the.* purpose of keeping, wages; up to. some, fictitious standard,! but nona-of thesemethods can compel anyone' to. employ labour, at a loss,, consequently/ there are many unemployed,, while* others are. getting twice, what- they are worth. W6". see'lcases- in. Court wher&' an employer, is ffired £31 for employing servants in a. restaurant at 30s. per. week and their, fdodj. and;, the men. who took these fair wages. were; ; also fined. . Another thing.that:leads to unemployment is the "go: slow" method that-is now generally adopted inall 'classesi'oT. lafoujp, consequently, tinless. ceriiin. work, is urgently, reqm'rea' it remahis undone; -Ais- an'illustratibn b£i}iis. you find, that: people living, in. the; suhurhs: either work at their, own gardens on Saturdays or let them go* to waste. Indeed; many are now building on. allotmenfe without any spare land for' gardei? or lawns. If a man does employ a worker below standard rates both employer and employee- would probably be taken to Court and fined, much more heavily than for stealing from ships or warehouses; While it is a crime to worSt for less than (he. standard wages it is no crime to loaf about thß streets going from one hotel to another so long as a. shilling can be got by any means. A. strike is. a most senseless, and costly proceeding both for the worker and the country, but it. is nothing like as contemptible- as the. "go slow " polic- for the latter is defrauding the - purchaser of what he is paving for.. That pernicious clause* of ll preference to unionists" saps the manhood ont of - the ■ worktrs; thej' no longer are allowed- to think for- themselves, (n the good oid pioneering, days, when > men leaked after themselves, the good water very soon became an employer. ■ and Each Nvm\4 \» tt» cms. w \j4 'A ToZT Jf the 6ctitioM wage} laid) 3 77 Htoßt remain itfle -- Take the EP&S* t himt of'ourpionjl v4wtK fe-afrout fraJf its i'• might SfovW-rt < A Tfy* island -*■ Can9 ! S&lf' \-wJSwi labour: laws* them would? &W

"wlioH no 'st&rtage slaughtermen,;.when. is -at_,» wee -tliatlVetnrn'i/ tb^prtvfef»£»s«£• * the are;p.M-:,, lfc uuke i Henir George to explain twice what\tbey are tn&m. common senso: I:M wve ono-of tl? 6| rctiirres- Wero-paiV doubTe> **Vm *«»>>]}; their trade existed,, and ,nov wages .at all. during a strike. Give this ;fora year, and> watch p«Mf| much as:th 9 y liked, ; J tokiU.a S ,many beasts: ■Natural' laws, are- bound to, 'jmrS »i selves. AVater can'be" forcedraachinery;.b'ut,wheh':th^mftchm*va: s i<ffi?; it will resume its dOWnliUl cours* ..Mm and, demand., fab an: unalterali|i:VW': and:i&bound in.the-end W* highly-paid- agitator. AJ}^flSfcjpS and. unemployment add greatlyftto«MP of'Uvihg, without'any beneht: When f came to PP i agitators;. we. could, work when, imm * [ wV liked", without, oven, being, called. ; » i "scab;" and-, employer and: employee- .wew.. ! both. much, happiei-, So loiig; aa Wjg&l ing labour below a. ridiculous;M m IJrSi&fat 'newsoaa "A-Serious.Offence," aO-lpng«UlJ there: bo' unsmploymonti FmNOIkHtJM*.