UNEMPLOYMENT.
Sir, —In the matter of nnemploymeat citizens of this country are having an unusually hard time of it. I have had nine months of unemployment. I have three brothers and a sister who have for some time past been unable to obtain work. This I state to illustrate one case out of thousands. I believe there are well over a hundred thousand manual workers in New Zealand. If each were to donate one shilling per week toward a permanent employment fund, which could be arranged through the channels they found most desirable, each worker contributing his £2 12s per year would have a sum which would eventually remove from his vicinity the pallid spectre of unemployment. * Every one who donated would be entitled to remunerative work, not charity. The sum of £260,000 would go , far toward assisting the working man to exist. As a nucleus of a permanent fund it would grow if managed along strictly business lines and would also enable the settler in the country to get better roads and in ten years if local roading contracts were taken well over a million and a-half " of capital would be the reserve fund. Novak. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19805, 28 November 1927, Page 12
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