MEN WHO MISS WORK.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16213, 16 May 1918, Page 4

MEN WHO MISS WORK.

TRAINING AT THE STATE'S

EXPENSE.

TVuring the past two or three months the Wellington Employment Bureau of the Labour I>epartment lias sent between forty and fifty men to co-opera-tive works. Apparently the applicants wore willing to go. They obtained railway passes, on the usual understanding that the cost would he deducted from their pay. They nil had trips, but today only thirteen are_ at ■ the works. Some dodged the business end of the journey. Others decided to move on again after a few hours' pretence of exertion.

It seems, from enquiries made br a representative of the "Wellington "Post," that certain men described as "unskilled labour" arc exceedingly skilled in avoiding work. They will resort to an alias to obtain a free rid«* fr<>m the State from one "p.inr patrlr' to a better pasture for tho 4 "knight of Industry." Out of six who signed on recently at Wellington to go to a certain job only one turned up at the place. Emboldened by success in gaining single trips for nothing, one wanderer tried recently to make the return journey similarly. He was Wellington to a coal mine in the south. He •lid not like the grimness of tho place. It was not nearly so pleasant as some spots that he had known. He quickly decided that it was not as likable as Wellington, and he applied immediately for a passage back to this citv. This height or depth of impudence'liad no luck.