DOLE SYSTEM
COMMISSION’S FINDING
I United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this dav at 8 a.m.l : LONDON, Jan. 25
Extraordinary evidence of the exploitation of the dole continues to be a feature of the Royal Commission’s investigation into the relief administration. . , Among cases described at the latest sitting were the following: A youth dropped an apprenticeship as a salesman at ten shillings weekly and got fourteen shillings on the dole. • Thousands of women refuse, domestic service at eight to ten shillings weekly because the dole offers fifteen. shillings, The manager of a Newcastle Labour Exchange said that he could , not fill fifty per cent of the vacancies for servants, and added his own personal experience of the effect of the dole which showed it led to the demoralisation ot the recipientSj street gambling among mere youths, while drunkenness was more apparent on relief pay days. Othor witnesses enumerated scores of similar instances of refusal to work. - ___
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1931, Page 5
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157DOLE SYSTEM Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1931, Page 5
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