WORK ON THE FARM.
To the Editor. Sir, —In regard to Mrs McLean’s outlook of the unemployed relief, I would like her to know how some of the women and children of the employed men have to work to live. All through the milking season we are up at 4.30 a.m. to milk, and we work till 7 p.m., and often longer. What we have to call our own at the end of the season for ourselves is less than nothing. Would the women of the towns do this? As for married men going to camps. Many a man off small farms has to work away all week, while his wife and small children have to do the work on the farm, and you don’t hear this everlasting cry for more money,. less work and shorter hours. Yet it is child labour like this that pays the unemployed tax in the finish, and this is supposed to be a free country.—l am > etc ” ~A W orKING MOTHER.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22130, 26 September 1933, Page 9
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167WORK ON THE FARM. Southland Times, Issue 22130, 26 September 1933, Page 9
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