UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Sir, — In reading my Sun I notice some of your correspondents are angry at the prospects of the dole (State Insurance is the proper name) being introduced into New Zealand. Now, I would like to raise my small, voice, not against State Insurance, but in favour of it. Both here and “back Home” I myself have always been fortunate in having constant employment, but when I look around at the unemployed other fellow r , I see him as just as good a man as myself, but, unfortunately, unable to get work. It is so easy for some people to say about the other fellow', “Oh, he doesn't want work.” True, there may be a few', but they are the exceptions. We are living in a time when all who have steady jobs and all who fancy they have steady work should realise for their own good that the order of the sack or illness may come to any of us at any moment. Many of us would
scorn aid from any charity and would have to suffer in silence, "whereas, with State Insurance, each worker would have something to help keep the wolf from the door and give the man that is employed a little peace of mind in regard to the horrid fear of unemployment. I trust Parliament will hasten the Bill and I for one won’t grudge the few pence weekly. SCOTTY.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 8
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236UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 8
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