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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23631, 15 October 1938, Page 19

UNEMPLOYMENT i MORE LABOUR HALFTRUTHS Labour states that the official figures as at 28th September, 1938, were as follows: Registered but not on relief 77! On Scheme No. 5 relief 743 On Sustenance (awaiting employment) . . 61 1,575 The HALF-TRUTHS are in the OMISSIONS (1) LABOUR has collected £5,105,019 Unemployment Tax during the last 12 months. Do YOU think this sum was collected to keep 1575 men? (2) LABOUR, according to published figures, hail 22,358 men on Public Works. You have seen the camps from the North Cape to the Bluff These are simply RELIEF WORKERS receiving higher wages than the FARMER can afford to pay. This is why, during the last 12 months, for the first time in the history of New Zealand, the QUANTITY of our primary produce has shown a DECREASE. (3) LABOUR says; On Sustenance awaiting employment . . . • 61 It makes no mention of 8000 men who, according to the official "Abstract of Statistics,” were on July 31, 1938, on sustenance, and who will never be employed. (4) LABOUR omits to mention that in 1928, in a period comparable with the presj ent, under a Non-Socialistic Government, the amount of unemployment was practically nil, and there was no Unemployment Tax. In the words of Tennyson, as quoted by Dr McMillan: — A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, A lie which is all lie may be met and fought with outright: But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.