PIN-PRICKING RESTRICTIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21688, 5 July 1932, Page 9

PIN-PRICKING RESTRICTIONS

TO THE EDITOR Sir,— We read much and sympathise deeply with the unemployed, and Mr Coates’s difficulties in satisfying them and catering to their needs, but it seems to mo that the noisy element amongst.them ferget about the equal number of primary producers and their families who are up against a more difficult problem, for, .«> addition to providing for their own wants, they are taxed to the utmost extent to provide money as well as food and clothin" for the unemployed in towns. V e never hear of the Arbitration Court deliberating about their working hours or limiting the duties of the draper’s boy to the sweeping out of the shop or thosi of the ploughman who was permitted by the Painters’, Act to paint the outside gate, but forbidden to use hia brush on the stable doors. It would be interesting to know where the sense of such pin-pricking restrictions comes in or the necessity for such a pantomimic paraphernalia of a court of justice to define them—l am. etc.. Legislation Gone Mad.