Unemployment growing

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Christchurch states that unemployment among unskilled workers is increasing. According to the Labour Department, 20 men applied for work this week, the majority being general labourers, with a few farm labourers and storemen. Trades Union officials state that there are signs that unemployment is likely in a number of trades in the near future. — ODT, 16.4.1921. The late "Jock" Graham, the mailman of the early days, who, attired in a scarlet coat and mounted on a horse, carried the mails to the early goldfields in Otago. Afterwards when unemployment was rife he sold carcases and sides of mutton by auction. He then became a wellknown street orator. Crippled by rheumatism, as the result of hardships endured as a mailman, he became an inmate of the Benevolent Home at Caversham. — Otago Witness, 26.4.1921. COPIES OF PICTURE AVAILABLE FROM ODT FRONT OFFICE, LOWER

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