CORRESPONDENCE

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1930, Page 13

CORRESPONDENCE

WAGES AND UNEMPLOYMENT. (To the Editor), Sir—Your report of the unemployment committee’s discussion regarding their task for the coming winter months must cause concern and a desire on every hand that those who cannot help themselves should have available food and clothing. The able-work-er should not be unemployed, as there -is abundance of work to be done, but the economic condition of the country calls for lower costs, and while the pill is hard to swallow wages must recede to what they were when our produce was at present price levels in years past, and that is for unskilled labour at 7s per day.' This position faced, and it applies to every walk of life —schoolteachers, civil servants, railway workers, as well as all others—unemployment would soon disappear. Your correspondent, “Interested/ suggests the Government putting on men to clear weeds. This would mean slipshod work and cause more harm than good,. The facts must be faced. No Government can shoulder the whole responsibility—l am,' etc., “HALF A LOAF.”