UNEMPLOYMENT AND RELIEF
As the Government, per medium of the Arbitration Court, has assessed the value of an hour’s labour at from Is 9d upwards, this value being based on the cost of living, “N.Z.” is quite prepared to stand your correspondent, "Aucklander’s,” accusation of retailing low-down propaganda, which consists of asking for a square deal. If “Aucklander’s” knowledge of the unemployment subject is limited to the case of the old man whom he so kindly assisted, it is a pity he had not been present at the opening of a certain contract in the city this morning, where there were a hundred or two virile men in search of work. If he will refer to the local bureau’s weekly statement intimating that there are 500 unemployed on the register and employment has been found for 50, and ask himself how the remainder (who possibly have not had one month’s work in three of late), are going to live, he may be able to form a much enlarged idea of the present state of affairs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 120, 11 August 1927, Page 10
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175UNEMPLOYMENT AND RELIEF Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 120, 11 August 1927, Page 10
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