TRAINING FOR TRADES.
Opposition to the Minister of Labour's plan to train men for trades and occupations in which there is a shortage under a sy.-tem of State subsidies during tlie training period has developed from apprentices, who declare that present training facilities for young labour are inadequate. They also suggest that opportunities for boys leaving school would be reduced by the subsidy system. Unless the unions give some measure of support to Mr. Webb's plan it will have little chnnce of success, and raising obstacles before the plan has taken definite outline will seriou-lv .militate again.-t its usefulness. There are still many men without trades who suffered becau-e of the bwk of opportunity to learn during the yens of depression. When a new pathway is opened ii]> to them it is now Migge.-led thai it be closed because of the possibility that younger people, for whom many avenues are available, to-day, may at mhuc indellnilc period be handicapped. Mr. Webb is nut likely to be stampeded into dropping a plan because of interested opposition, but if it is to be of use it will require almost immediate operation, while manufacturers are endeavouring to tind labour for tin , n>«ault on the Home market nuulu possible bv the import restrictions.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 10
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209TRAINING FOR TRADES. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 10
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