Propaganda! We loathe the word. It has been overdone, and clumsily at that, and this coulment would not have been written but that it was thought interesting to show what sort of pabulum is served up to those who are held to constitute the thinking proportion of the working masses. Writing of the Government's Unemployment Insurance Act, which gives an unemployed man 15/- per week, woman 12/-, boy 7/6 and a_ girl 6/- for a' maximum period of 15_ weeks in any one year, a Labour paper complains that while the maximum benefit a man can draw is £11.15.0 per annum, the government only pays 32/2. or one-seventh of the total. The man pays 4d. per week, the, employer 8d., and the State 2d. in premia for the insurance, amounting to £3.0.8 per annum, but as the insurance is with itself, the Government in fact pays out £9.30 a sum somewhat in excess of the Labour paper's figures. It is difficult to say whether statements are due to a malicious disregard for facts or an utter inability to appreciate them,. but while such stuff is served up to that section of the public which allows the daily paper to think for it, no wonder can be felt at the unrest which exists.
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