UNEMPLOYMENT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 21 September 1938, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT

TO THE EDITOR OI THE PEESS. Sir—Please allow me space to answer A Kelso's letter of September 10 He accuses me of being hysterical over one thing or another and thus armed rushing to pen and showing my own ignorance. Does ne howafiy in his own letter as no douot he rushed to print? He has not answered the question about the unemployment tax, so I will.. It goes to pay all the men, such as himself, on jobs such as the airport. He also says that the men who ride up the Fendalton road are not public works men or unemployed. Well, who are they? I am sure 200 or 300 men are not employed by farmers. They go to the airport and use a few of Mr Semple s picks and shovels and wheelbarrows till home time. As it happens, I was on the Burnside road at five minutes to 8 o'clock this morning, and men were Still riding to the airport; so how do they get there by 7.45? He also says as much as to say that I am not out of bed, but it would be a shock to A. Kelso to know that I am often out of bed at 3.30 a.m. and that I travel 14 miles before he thinks'of getting up. If I am narrow-minded, he has another think coming to him as I have taken a lot of time to see for myself how these men work, or rather loaf. A. Kelso goes on to say that these men worked for less than lfls a week four years ago. Why bring that up? We are tola that there is no unemployed, so that should be enough for A. Kelso to understand why they worked for that. Last of all he accuses me of being a liar. Well, he is wrong, as I saw a gang of men playing cards who were caught a few weeks later. I did not say that cards were being played on the airport, so he hit the wrong nail that time. In conclusion, why do they not work eight hours a day instead of fix?— Yours, etc., EIGHT HOURS A DAY. September 19, 1938.