EMPLOYMENT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 December 1932, Page 4

EMPLOYMENT

HARRY

W00DKh''J

(To the (Editor.) Sir, — Employment is quite P by swelling the ranks of id; useful and necessary underfet W ork, for the sake of doing i thing, removing darth from place to another and being it, at the expense of others, £ stupid for words. The root cause of unemplq is traceable to this fact— the c sal and gigantic displacement of labour by labour-saving machii It is no use continually dhfe ing charity or useless work. 1; thCn hiake an attempt to regula» use the hours of labour for b vancement of industry and the: fit of the people as a whole^ This q'an be effected hy _& Parliament; the act in quesfc be cited as the Six Hour titi With the passing of such a P> sands would be reabsorbed ^ dustry again. The following then may P a foundation for the f raming o* able legislation: (1) T^e ^ labour be so reduced, until noh male or female, who is wjj work, remains unemployed; ( J all workers paid by the how not work more than six howday or thirty-three hours Per _ at union rates of pay; (3) aljr in reeeipt of a weekly, f°r/L monthly salary shall not he w longer than six hours Pe^ thirty-three hours per weeK» overtime and no person tojie to hold two or more position ^ Here then is a proposal th«, bring about an "equal share ^ necessary work. To my mrh either ration out the ho®s . our or else you distribute , doles and unproductive ff°r ' A copy of the same has ' on to the Hon. A. Hamilton .. of Labour and will, we are ^ receive consideration by « ploynrent Board. — I am, etc.i

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