PAMPERING UNEMPLOYMENT?

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1930, Page 10

PAMPERING UNEMPLOYMENT?

(To the Editor.) Sir,—The more you pamper. the '■'un.-' employed" the more unemployed you are likely to have. The unemployment cult yets far more publicity in the Press than all the trades and professions put to» gethef. Yet it is the workers in all thesa ventures, including schools/and churches, that keep the country going. That there are good men looking vainly for jobs is freely admitted, but they do not belong to this unemployment cult. In this centre, a great deal of work (by way of example) is to be had in the summer months. Many come over and many are good men and good women workers, and as v rule they do very well. Others, again, whilst ostensibly looking for work,., are praying that they will not get it. Young men, very often, what with hunting for free feeds during the day, and hunting for pleasure at night, have very little time to be "looking for a job," and after several weeks of a very good time indeed get % free trip back to Wellington at the expense of our kind Charitable AM Board. With this class "unemployment" is fast developing into a trade. They are living, and living verywell on the game. They aredoing better often than are same of the real workers, and I Bay they should not be encouraged or pandered: to. Furthermore, if less waste took place: on coetljr and profitless, amusements, there would be less real unemployment. Money is freely spent on the fierce quest for pie? sure.—l am, etc., E.S. ■ Nelson, 29th April. (To tha Editor.) Sir,—lf the energy expended by the unemployed in looking for work by walking the streets, interviewing and writing numerous and resultless applications, were directed into the channel of solving the unemployment problem, this problem, 1 think, could be solved. The question is, ia there any way by which such energy' can be directed?Is there no genius thai will arise and do this? Personally, ,1 work harder writing application.?, interviewing, and walking the streets looking for work tha:i if I worked in an office.—l nntm t etc; UNEMPLOYED.