UNEMPLOYMENT.

Southland Times, Issue 21099, 3 June 1930, Page 3

UNEMPLOYMENT.

To the Editor. Sir, —Surely your correspondent is attempting a joke or a paradox when he signs himself “Safety First’’ because by his letter he defeats his own object inasmuch as at the present time what with obsolete engines, rolling stock only fit for the scrap heap, chaos and mismanagement it is safer to travel by road than rail; beyond paying my proportion of the rates to meet the annual deficit I have no interest in either.

The sole object of my letter was a disinterested attempt to find a way out of an impasse and stave off red revolution with its attendant horrors into which we are drifting head on, and retard if possible disintegration of the British Empire which I fear has already begun, thanks to the shortsightedness of “Safety First” and his kind.

In apologising for the shortcomings of the Railway Department “Safety First” uses the words “any fair minded man” (another paradox) yet while criticising and condemning my schemes as impracticable offers nothing in substitution or alternative. When the freezing works close, throwing a further 350 men on the already congested labour market “Safety First” might yet be glad to seek it in the canal.—l am, tU ’’ SPERO MELIORA.