UNEMPLOYED.
To the Editor. Sir,—lf you will permit me I should like to say a few words in connection with the poor married workmen of Masterton, and the way they are being treated. It is a crying shame to see a poor married working ratepayer having to leave his wife and family and go on to relief works hundreds of- miles away from his home, while the manager of a municipal department is employing single men. I for one called on that certain gentleman, and asked him for work, "and he said he wanted no more workers. Next morning he was seen putting two single men on. Another married man called on him for a job, and was told, "You are not the cut of a navvy," and was refused work. Why js it? Is it because we do not come from the same town over the other side? Anyway, here's a straight dart for the relief works on Friday morning, and who is going to pay the rates?—l am, etc., POOR MARRIED RATEPAYER.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9532, 2 July 1909, Page 5
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174UNEMPLOYED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9532, 2 July 1909, Page 5
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