“ONE MAN ONE JOB.”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21242, 24 January 1931, Page 12

“ONE MAN ONE JOB.”

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — I have noticed that at different meetings the opinion has been expressed that there should be one man only tor one job, and that one man should not hold down two jobs, as in the case of men being employed by county councils and borough councils, although they _ possess private moans or farms, etc. Holding that this opinion is absolutely sound, I wish to brine; under public notice the unfairness in these hard times of men in Government positions taking up land and niilking cows, and otherwise making quite a considerable sum to increase their wages. This might be. all very well if it did not impose hardship on other sections of the community. I know of cases where hard-, working casual labourers—unfortunately all men cannot have steady jobs, no matter how willing they are—cannot get enough ground to keep one cow to supply their families with milk because all the laud available has been taken up by men who are in good jobs and in receipt of good steady wages and are milking more cows than many a poor beggar "’ho has nothing else to live on. Railway ground is set aside for railwayman, but still they take up every bit of ground they can, and people like myself are deprived of our very living, although it is out our pockets, along with the rest of the community, that Government wages come. Surely those who themselves earn a good wage should leave the land for their not so fortunate fellows. I grudge no man prosperity, but a fair deal is surely the best. It is time that all these things were investigated, and that every man was given the chance to make a decent living instead of a few enriching themselves at the expense of others. . „ I know of two cases where Government employees are milking sufficient cows to return them almost as much as their wages, and, when I have had to get rid of my cows through my inability to pay the high rent asked for paddocks—a rent which a railwayman can afford to pay, and does pay—it makes me think and then—think again.—l am, etc.. Young New Zealand.