"Make the unemployed earn their Dole!" clamored Saxon conservatives last Spring, forced the Saxon Government of Premier Schieck into a significant experiment. Results were made known at Dresden last week.
The Experiment. A call for Saxons to work in "labor platoons" was sounded by the Government. The work offered, it was clearly stated, would be hard, manual. Dikes would be built along two small Saxon rivers whose chronic tendency is to overflow. No labor-saving devices would be used, labor being the project's main object. Each platoonsman would receive a wage of 50 pfennigs...
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