MANPOWER SURVEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 154, 1 July 1940, Page 8

MANPOWER SURVEY.

Britain's Resources To Be Fully Utilised. EXPERTS APPOINTMENT. British Official Wireless. (Received 'J. 30 a.m.) RUGBY, June 30. The Minister of Labour and National Service, Mr. Ernest Bevin, has appointed Sir William Beveridge. who is an authority on unemployment, as a commissioner to survey the available resources of manpower of all kinds, and report with suggestions as to the means by which these resources can be utilised fully for national purposes. The survey will cover manpower in all forms —men, women and young persons now in employment or out of employment.

Sir William Beveridge, in a broadcast talk, outlined the scope of the work he has been asked to undertake. He would have to see just what resources of manpower and what kinds were available, why those resources were not yet being fully used, and what steps might be taken to get them more fully used. The

Sir William Beveridge.

essence of the present position was that while "there is an immense and unsatisfied demand for certain kinds, labour offering itself for employment is largely of a different kind. Skilled men are wanted—innumerable willing hands without that **kill are available."

In war, employers must not expect to be able to get men with the degree of skill they could get in peace time. They would have to leam to do with substitute labour, women 6r young people in place of men, older men or women than they were used to, and people who did not know their job already and would have to be taught it. They must do all these things rather than hold up production. They must not use for simple jobs people who could do something harder. War was an affair of substitutes in goods and in labour.

"My business is to find out what sort of substitutes are available for skilled labour that cannot be provided, and how those substitutes can best be fitted to the national need," said Sir William.

TOLL IN AIR.

MANY R.A.F. AIRMEN "MISSING"

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

LONDON, June 30.

The 36th Air Ministry casualty list contains 325 names and includes 202 missing, 31 killed in action, 30 killed on active service, and three died of wounds. Seventeen previously missing are now known to be prisoners.