An Australia-wide appeal is being launched to stimulate industry and provide work. In Victoria the Benevolent Societies are appealing for 10,000 people to give 10/- each to provide 10,000 jobs.

Me father says that Santa Claus
   Will come again, me father says.
Me father says he knows, because
   He knows some men, me father days,
What told him troubled days are done,
An’ there’ll be jobs for every one.
An’ then we’ll all have heaps of fun,
   Me father says


Me father says that little boys
   Should not get mad, me father says,
Because they don’t get Christmas toys
   When times are bad, me father says.
‘Cos Santa’s often hard up, too,
An’ can’t get any work to do;
Which makes it bad for me an’ you,
   Me father says.


Me father says when Christmas comes,
   It times get right, me father says.
The heaps of toys, like gun’s an’ drums,
   Will be a sight, me father says.
But I don’t care.  If Santa brings
My dad a job I don’t want things.
Work makes all fathers rich as kings,
   Me father says.

"Den"
Herald, 6 November 1931, p6