Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25,1884. THE UNEMPLOYED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 48, 25 January 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY .) Suivant la verite. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25,1884. THE UNEMPLOYED.

We do not hear anything more of the unemployed agitation m the South., This would seems to confirm the hypothesis that the movement was not the outcome of genuine distress resulting from lack of employment, but that it was to a considerable extent a " tryon." The indiscriminate,free,immigration of recent years must necessarily produce certain undesirable results, one of Which, i»sba.und W be:aXdiscbntehted nutnber of people who prefer almost anything to steady work. Many of thtjse came out with entirely erroneous iiapresgiojgsipf khe^counfcryandahe kind of life they might reasonably expect. A. large per eentage of thorn should never have left home, and as colonists will be found undesirable m every sense, and will probably never me abSvd^h^Jf ' Dite"se)Tt leVelf-in the spciarßca'ler tf fiTthofe for the most ; pa,rt, and such as these, that form the great army of the unemployed, ..-whose agitations intermifteutly Jcqrite' id : the' surface, and who '-whVn'dtfdred employment which they profess to be ar.xious to obtain, Recline' iq acpept anything but current wages.' We do not say that labour m the colony us just, now extra well paid,jbecause depression is the lideVer'ery where. But as a rule steady capable working men, can earn fair wages aud find pretty constant employment. . Possibly m B«me, of the cities m tlie' South, this may be the'exception, and vet we hear of contractors offering high rates of wages and being unable to find men>;. We -ißarivtoo, many of the labouring classes wtick too closely to the towns. The country districts should be their field of labour. There is reason to believe that npxt winter things may be considerably worse than 'they are now, and it will behove the working -clasHes to practice frugality, and not to be at the end of their resources \y hen. the cjufl spascm approaches.. Jt ]« satisfactory to qbaeryo'ljiai a more depirable class of immigrant^ are now seeking our shores — we refer to the relatives of those who have done veil m the country, and who have sent for' their frienu> fco share their prosperity. Wfe do not consider there is the depr^sj |ion m the labpav market thaj: agitators Tfftuld make put ? bift \vf» dxj |h|uk that

unless greater econoiiiy and '.provideu6e are practiced by the working elates, many will know what it is to experience distress during the coming winter.