PLIGHT OF UNEMPLOYED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18087, 7 August 1936, Page 13

PLIGHT OF UNEMPLOYED

t (To the Laitor of the Herald.) | Sir, —Would you allow me space in your columns to express my opinion on unemployment. The other day I was speaking to a man on sustenance, lie told me that he was registered on the labour bureau~placement scheme and lie had been walking the street for about seven weeks and still hail heard nothing about a job. lie said he was a married returned soldier, his wife was sick, and lie was getting 29s sustenance. Out of that he paid 15s for rent, and ho could hot afford to take his wife to a doctoi as it was impossible to pay the doctor’s fee. Why does the Government spend its time restoring all civil servants and public .employees’ 10 per cent cuts and let the man on the street down. The Labour Government’s election promise was to absorb the unemployed first. 1 am not criticising the Government, as it is doing its best to clear up the mess other Governments put the country in. but if it cannot find work for the unemployed man who has been out of work -for so many years, why not pay him a decent, sustenance. —Yours, etc., OBSERVER.