WORK FOR BOYS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 13

WORK FOR BOYS

(To the Editor.)

Sit-,—ln .Siitiirday's "Post.", under tlio licading "Work for Boys," there is a letter by Thos. J. Liddall. I take exception to two. of his remarks; first, what the dole has done for the youths in tugland, aud secondly, indirectly calling the youths of the Old Country loafers. Before the war at Home, no man paid unemployment insurance except he was a tradesman, and if lie went out of work and was offered a job .at the unemployment office, at any distance from his home, he had either to go or he got no beneht from the insurance. In 1916 Mr. Lloyd George got1 the Act passed that all workers in Britain between the ages of lti and CO had to pay1 unemployment insurance. When the war was over unemployment! started, and the workers of Britain who were thrown out of work collected unemployment insurance money, to which they were justly entitled, and for which the Government had forced them to pay. I ask Mr. Liddall if he were paying for insurance against accident and' sickness, and had the misfortune to meet with either, would he call himself a loafer to be receiving the money from the insurance? If work can be given to any ol the unemployed at Home and'they refuse it-their money stops. ■ So far as bringing anything similar to unemployment insurance into New Zealand, I do not hold with it, as the country is too small, and the' Government would not get a return without placing a burden on those who were working. I am sure the time is not far distant when things will right themselves here, and everyone will have work who wants it. The unemployed in the Old Country are only getting what they are forced to pay for, and 90 per cent, are not loafers,— I am. etc

SCOTTY,