No. 4b Scheme
Sir, —In answer to the correspondence you have received on this subject, I wish to state my experience of the scheme. My mate and I, having no option hut to take one of these contracts or become “voluntarily” unemployed, chose the former course. We are both married men with families and this meant having to keep two homes. After working for 13 days for 10 hours per day, we realised the job was not paying, and therefore gave it up in disgust. When we received our cheque for the part of the job which was completed we found that, for 130 hours’ hard work, we had earned the munificent sum of £lO 15s 9d each—less than Is 3d per hour. The Social Security Department told us that this is a better rate of pay than most of these jobs work out at. During this time we also lost three days through wet weather. Now, having left a job, which would have eventually forced us into debt, we arc treated as “voluntarily” unemployed. As far as the Society Security Department is concerned we can starve. M.U.G.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 3 November 1939, Page 9
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188No. 4b Scheme Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 3 November 1939, Page 9
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