ADVICE TO WORKERS
PLAY THE GAME BUT DON'T PLAY POKER LETTING DOWN" GOVERNMENT "Play the game and do your best! Don't let people riding past see you loafing or playing poker." That was the message he wished all Scheme 13 men would take heed of, said »*the Minister of Labour* the Hon P. G. Webb, when addressing the conference of the Federation of Labour, says the Labour paper the Standard. Disabled and unfit men in subsidised employment were being paid full standard rates of pay, said Mr Webb, and the Government was being heavily criticised for being generous to men who, they justly pointed out, would.not be able to' earn 5s a day in private employment or on piece work. Mr Webb said that the Government was prepared to take all the criticism it might get for: such generosity, but he did not sse why men who were being well treated should expose the Government to unnecessary attacks by loafing on the jobs or misbehaving themselves.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 145, 10 April 1940, Page 5
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