Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1922. LABOUR’S RESPONSIBILITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2403, 11 March 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1922. LABOUR’S RESPONSIBILITY.

DISCUSSING the relief of unemployment recently, in a speech at\ a meeting of the Imperial Commercial Association, Mr J. It. Clynes, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, said he thought, far too much money had been given away for nothing in return. “It is a bad doctrine ever to give anything for nothing, and I would like to see this great business of unemployed support resting more in the great workshops and factories, and taken away from separate and outside State institutions, very very costly in themselves, and perhaps not altogether efficient in the detection of. that individual who is tempted to live upon money if he can get it anyhow. The malingerer and the waster is not so frequently discovered as he would be if there were upon him the jointly watchful eye'of his fellow-work-* man and the 'men who are at tljp head of the great businesses afld works throughout the country. Labour says, ‘This is our country as well as yours,’ and, having said that, it is the duty of Labour to join with other classes in- actively serving the national well-being, so as to give to everyone working with bis brain as well as his band, bis, fair and full share of the rewards of bis service. 1 am certain that this reward ran come in . fuller measure just in the degree that- there is greater and not less class co-operation, greater agreement among all sections for the common advance of this country, which we are all so wishful to.see heller off than it is at present.”