UNEMPLOYMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20991, 2 April 1930, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT.

TO TUB EDIT 01!. fell it,--The hearty appreciation ami thanks of tliu unemployed o£ our city are ihie to Messrs J. Robinson and Mum-o for their indefatigable efforts on their behalf. The correct state of affairs is now disclosed. We are approaching the timt when the present system of combines, trusts, and liuaucial methods of the world is gravely to be questioned. With machinery displacing human labour; surely the more enlightened people can see that the time must come for a revolution in econo- I miu matters. World-wide unemployment is now more prevalent than ever, and, with most of the world's finance flowing to America, in payment of war debts, pictures, petrol, and motor cars, where is all this to end? Please do not misconstrue my aims in writing so often on these matters; "but it does seem strange that, with the wealthy British Empire and the vast resources available and the uneven distribution of willing, able-bodied workers, gome system oE betterment cannot be attained. Largely through the capitalistic system holding up the necessary funds, the whole population of the world needs goods of some sort or other, yet We have world-wide unemployment, Unemployables _ are . being evolved by long idleness. It is a great loss for this country to have such large numbers idle, with so much to be done m this finei richly-favoured land, yet nothing to do Surely, now is the time to act and divert those on the brink of becoming extremists and make them useful, happy citizens. We will find that the ideas of Messrs P. Neilson and Sivertsen respecting economic reconstruction are absolutely necessary and must come about in the course of time, but in the meantime many people in this country alone are on the verge of starvation, as through long unemployment they have exhausted all avenues of succour, aud even the Salvation Army is turning them away in.despair through shortage of funds in this wealthy city.— I am, etc., B. E. Kith.