WORKLESS WHO LIVE WELL.
BY MANIPULATING OUKHENCY. Unemployed workers of Switzerland, of whom, owing to the serious Swiss trade and financial crisis due to the state of anarchy in the exchange markets there are now many thousands, with their number increasing dailv, have discovered an ingenious war" of living luxuriously without costing them more than their unemployment dole. The unemployment pay in Switzerland is six francs and sixty centime a day—barely enough for subsistence. Pis paid fortnißhtlv and as soon as it is drawn the recipient of it crosses the frontier into Germauv. where the daily sum he has received from the Swiss Government is worth :>;><> marks, enough to enable him to settle down in a comfortable German hotel until it is time to ;;ei his n<'xt instalment which il is necessary lo do in person. The more adventurous travel as far as Vienna, where the daily Swi:;s pittance berom.-s in Hi-' <'"tirs" <>l a ~,,,,!,. in,'Mine (it M I'll ii vear a pi iim'|> mi ohh in -••' erowns. Thus, even Swiss nnompl..'. - ~(1 chii vie in expenditures with the very wealih.v el' the former Hapabur;; capital.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 10306, 7 March 1922, Page 3
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186WORKLESS WHO LIVE WELL. Temuka Leader, Issue 10306, 7 March 1922, Page 3
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