“HARMFUL, DEMORALISING."
UNEMPLOYED RELIEF SYSTEM. Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND. September 5. The Auckland Metropolitan Unemployment Relief Committee passed the following resolution : “This, committee views v. ith grave concern the continuance of the present system of employing thousands of able-bodied mem at the existing low rate of wages, which is inadequate to maintain workers and their families in a reasonable standard of comfort, and compels them to resort to charity. ‘‘This unsatisfactory system, which has now continued for several years, is having the most harmful and demoralising effect upon both men and their dependents, and it has necessitated the organising of a system of charitable relief which is growing and extending throughout the community, and having a detrimental influence on our national life. “While appreciating pa<t efforts of the Government to extemporise means for alleviating unemployment, we consider the time has arrived for a discontinuing of the present system and for substituting it by making provision for every able-bedied man to have an opportunity of earning a. living wage.”
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12441, 6 September 1933, Page 5
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