PERNICIOUS DOLE.
RESPONSIBLE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. (bt cable—press association—copyright.) (Australian and n.z. cable association.) .''MELBOURNE, June 11. Mr F. Linzell, a London building contractor, who has just arrived in Melbourne, said that 1,250,000 men were out of work in Great Britain. This total was, he said, directly accountable to the pernicious influence of the dole. Under that system anyone who had been dismissed ' could claim the dole, but if ho left work of his own accord he received nothing. Tho result was that the lazy men, and there wero many, in order to obtain money for nothing, gave their employers the maximum amount of insolence and the minimum amount of labour in the hope of boing dismissed.
Trade unions were another source of unemployment. Unionists believed that by going slow* they would create more work, whereas they merely open the door to foreign competition. Last year over 1,000,000 unionists deserted the organised ranks of unionism and were now working as non-unionists.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18406, 12 June 1925, Page 9
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160PERNICIOUS DOLE. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18406, 12 June 1925, Page 9
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