The Wail of the Unemployed.

Otago Witness, Issue 2010, 1 September 1892, Page 32

The Wail of the Unemployed.

TO TIJE EDITOtt. g IB _As you are aware, a good many men are out of employment just now, and mo3t of them are very anxious to get work wherever offered them. Now I wish to show my fellow workmen the foolishness of leaving their homes on -the word of a private individual. I, with 10 others, was engaged at Odinaru to come to Glenomaru to fell bush for a Mr Smith, and was told that we were having a privilege conferred on us— that men in the neighbourhood were anxious to obtain. 1 wish they had got it. Let any man who wants to work nine hours a day for his tucker roll up to Mr Smith with a good sharp axe and a stone. It is however, a shame that men in Mr Smith s position should be considered by labour bureaus. They should be made to pay men's fares and keep instead of asking the Government to send men up to chop their bush down for their tucker. You will find is good bushmen in Cathns as anywhere, and they laugh at the idea of asking men to cut down trees of from 2ft to 3ft for sixpence. The bush has been underscrubbed, but not fired, so it takes a quarter of an hour to get from one tree to anothei.— l am, &c, Glenoinaru, August 27. One of the Tex.