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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71

The Unemployed

The Unemployed.

[unclear: Those] who asked for fewer hours of labour [unclear: d] not expect at the same time to increase [unclear: e] produce of labour, but hoped to bring [unclear: to] employment their friends who were [unclear: nding] idle. They thought, with some [unclear: son], that if they were now working ten [unclear: ars] a day and there were a number of [unclear: eir] fellows out of employment, if they only [unclear: ked] five hours there would be [unclear: employent] tor more labourers. They never thought [unclear: of] saying that in five hours they turned out [unclear: e] much as in ten. Then there was the [unclear: question] the limitation of apprentices. Now, [unclear: they] limited the number of those taught [unclear: gular] trades, the others did not die. What [unclear: en] became of them? They remained outside, [unclear: al] when a dispute arose they turned up under the name of free labourers, and were ready [unclear: n] take up the work of those who went out. [unclear: tos] many a strike was broken up, and the [unclear: gular] tradesmen defeated by the free [unclear: tourers]. He was not saying these things [unclear: y] way of reproach to the intentions of [unclear: e] unionists or of Legislative Acts. The [unclear: tory] Acts in England had done much Mod, and were very necessary; and the [unclear: uployers] Liability Act had made [unclear: emplayers] more careful of the lives of the men [unclear: der] their care. You can, however, go too [unclear: r] in this direction, and they may have [unclear: er] far enough in New Zealand already: [unclear: haps] they had gone too far in some few [unclear: ints].