24-1-1919 The Times. Unemployment in Ireland. To the Editor of the Times. Sir-I think the English taxpayers might like to know how their money is administered in Ireland. There is a so-called "out of employment" donation, oresumaby for people unemployed by the cessation of the war. Here in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, there are no unemployed, yet within the last fortnight, £3000 of public money has been paid to farmers, millers, carpenters, masons, labourers, and their wives, and to all sorts and conditions of domestic servants. The unfortunate taxpayer and landowner can get no service, servants and labourers preferring to draw 28s (could be 29s, copy hard to read) a week and no work, to the maximum 26s a week and work, fixed by the government. I saw on Friday last hundreds of well dressed men drawing this money, and was greatly inconvenienced, when driving home, by the recipients in horse and donkey carts who had "drunk luck" rather freely to their unemployment donation. Apparently this money can be obtained by just signing a filled insurance card; consequently many frauds are perpetrated, and not a responsible person looks into the matter. I can get neither mason or carpenter. The irony of the misadministeration is that the majority of people drawing the donation are Sinn Feiners. The Government has indeed put a premium on dishonesty, laziness, and thriftlessness. Yours Truly. Curraghbawn, Nenagh. Jan 20th. B.F.KOE Mary