PREMIER AND DOLE,

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18808, 2 December 1932, Page 9

PREMIER AND DOLE,

MINISTERS SHIRKED THEIR DUTY. Mr namsay MacDonald, the British Prime Minister, was unable, owing to pressure of work, to fulfil an engagement lo speak in the Sealiam Division recently, amt in a letter to the Rev. G. A. West, rector of Easington, who was to have presided, he wrote: — “Let my Sealiam friends continue to discriminate between those who really are trying to help them in every possible and workmanlike way and those who, for their own political advantage, arc striving to exploit every grievance and every hardship of the unemployed man and his family. “This is what the men who shirked their duty to the nation last year, who prefer the role of irresponsible critics in opposition to a share in Die responsibility of bringing Die country through its crisis, are now' doing “They had readied the conclusion before they left office that a needs test for the unemployed who had exhausted their insuranco rights to benefits would have lo lie applied. They also knew Die difilculties of applying it. “Yet instead of helping us with constructive advice to make the new systc m work as smoothly and justly as possible they have been denouncing the whole test which the previous utterances of many of them prove they know to lie necessary."