WANT OF THOUGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 643, 20 April 1929, Page 7

WANT OF THOUGHT

THROWING SKILLED WORKERS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT A LACK OF PATRIOTISM How often do we recall and ponder on the poetical adage of our tender years, which told of the evil that is wrought by want of thought: and how many realise the evil now created right in our midst by the unthinking manner in which we throw our own skilled workers out of employment by the preference we show for imported goods over the products of our fellow citizens. I ET him who doubts it walk around our waterfront and talk with the idle workers of all trades, many of them skilled tradesmen and expert artisans. You can see them staring gloomily at the ceaseless flood of im ported goods pouring in from over seas, while they seek employment in vain; victims of the foolish importing craze which keeps them out of work Then let our sceptic stroll to the western slope of Albert Park, and watch below the pathetic stream of thes* workers and their wives filing into th , relief office of the Hospital Board, begins tor charitable aid to carry on. Or listen to Mr. George Knight, on* of the oldest and most experienced of our city fathers and chairman of the Relief Committee, speaking at the lb* pital Board meeting last Tuesday: “It was distressing for members to see a fine body of men clamour ing for relief all the morning. They were the finest lot of men I have seen in my life; there was not a ‘weed’ among them.” IRONY AND TRAGEDY Think of the irony of the boot operative's wife begging for children s foot wear because her husband has been • thrown out of employment by imported goods, or the clothing factory employe.seeking clothing because imported stuff had put the factory on short time. The out-of-work timberworker, living perhaps in a cottage built of American j pine, begs for his rent to avoid being thrown into the streets. PREVENTION AND CURE Where these artisans were formerly productive workers in our human hive ! they are now compulsory parasites, and the £4,000 a month poured out by the Hospital Board Relief Committee ! —not to mention private charities —is doing nothing to cure unemployment. Instead of putting a tariff fence at the top of the precipice of unemployment we leave it to the Hospital and Charii table Aid Board to maintain a relief office at the bottom. By the unthink ing manner in which we provide employment for workers in other countries we force our fellow New Zealander into the abyss of enforced idleness. , Then we pay a hospital rate to provide his family with charitable relief. He j doesn’t want charity: he wants work! But we pass him by to buy the product I of alien hands. Recently deputations from both em- ! ployers and workers told the Government that 75 per cent, of the machini ery in our clothing factories was lying ! idle. Why? Because last year we i imported wearing apparel to the value !of £2,556,250. A deputation from the boot trade told a similar talc. • Conditions in the trade were the worst for 34 years,” and “thousands of operatives were working only part time.” That was because we imported 2.672,280 pairs of boots and shoes in 1927. Two pairs a year for every man. woman and child in New Zealand. These are two typical cases of the gen eral stagnation in our industries, and these branches of industry are being sawn off our productive tree by the thoughtlessness of buyers and sellers !of goods. Patriotic New Zealanders i will lend their weight to pull their i fellow citizen out of the bread line. ! soup kitchen, doss house, and chan 1 table relief office by buying the goods he makes. Can’t you hear what he is muttering in his despair?- "Damn your charity . I Demand my products, and I won t need it.” .

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LOCALLY MADE CHOCOLATES

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