UNEMPLOYMENT
TO THE EDITOR, fins, —A lot has been written in your paper lately about farmers getting cheap labour under the various schemes for relieving unemployment, but it is not the hard-up farmers that are getting the unemployed to work for them, as they do most of their work themselves, and could not afford to feed any extra mouths in any case. The subsidy to the unemployed in any work done by them is no different from the duty put on imported goods such as boots, clothes, etc. It enables the factories to pay a higher wage, and the standard of living is raised another notch or two. It is quite a common thing to se6 a working man going to work in his car, or a farmer making a great noise about low prices and at the same time burning up petrol on unnecessary running of his car. A horse and dray did the same work for their grandfathers, and a gig for their fathers. Now it is a car for themselves and a motor bicycle for their boys.—l am, etc,, Farmer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21772, 11 October 1932, Page 12
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183UNEMPLOYMENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 21772, 11 October 1932, Page 12
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