Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1894. LITTLE CAUSE TO COMPLAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4779, 21 July 1894, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1894. LITTLE CAUSE TO COMPLAIN.

SEOOSD EDITION

Tiif, annual report of tlio Department of Labour declares that the working classes of New Zealand lwve had little causo to complain during .the past year, and this with twenty thousand idlo men in the Colony, and the number increasing rapidly day by day, Will the arnjy of unemployed in New Zealand endorse this statement, or will the employed who from day to day know not whether they will be cut adrift, aim it, or will tho employers, who with sore hearts have to turn'man after man away, endorse it ? Was not the Colony better off when 110 Labour Department with mendac- ( ious reports existed p What is the ' good of a department which is ever sending men into the country, who do not stick there but drift back into the town, The unemployed, . instead of scattering and seeking for suitable, occupation as individuals, are massed into unemployed Labour corps, A thousand such men are to to bo found in Wellington, and another thousand homeless,wanderers in the Wairarapa, and yet we are told that there has been little cause to complain, Labour Member Harnshaw urges the Government to find employment for all men who cannot obtain it in the open market, and Labour Merhber Earnshaw is right in this. If the Government undertake to find work for tho unemployed, they are logically bound to find it for all unemployed. What right have they to discriminate and say we will give work to A, but B O DEFGHI and K must be refused ? What claim pn thp State has tho first man ov.er and ab.pve the nine others ? The Government realising they :.cannfit Jjeli) alj, decide to liolp Borne, Out ojE twenty ilpsajKlunemjpkye'd ihoy-wiU assistpossibly twj jHiaiisand and .the other; .eighteen tliousapd ' will be fed simply with delusive hope • !Ijkl anticipation, We say tlmt tie

paitrnl lemody is worse than the disease, 'that ten men are kept waiting for the crumbs which fall from the Ministerial table, while the Governnient knows that they can only find crumbs for one out of the ten, and that tho nino are, under an illusion. Far better to have no State lidlp aii all than a partial aid, which only covers one-tenth of tho need and keeps thousands of people in a vain expectation, and yet'' there is little cause to complain,"