WORK FOR YOUNG MEN

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21813, 19 June 1936, Page 17

WORK FOR YOUNG MEN

TO TUE EDiTOU OF THE PRESS. Sir, —I should like to enquire if there is any place in the new scheme of things for the young man, now in his ’twenties, who left school as the depression started, full of hope and enthusiasm, expecting to find a position where he could earn an honest livelihood. I knov' many such young men, who repeatedly answered advertisement after advertisement, only to be disappointed. Some, perhaps, found a temporary position, with a very bare wage, only to be dismissed as the staff had to be reduced These were strong, healthy, selfreliant boys and had secondary education, and .being too independent to go into camps, or be a drain on their parents, went searching far and wide for any sort of work. They sometimes found it, often working early and late for a mere pittance, under the worst conditions. Still, they kept hoping for better times, and many are now in town looking for work. They are still young and strong with the same desires and inclinations as their more fortunate brothers, but no one wants them as they have not been apprenticed, consequently they are becoming soured and embittered. Surely something ought to be done for these.— Yours, etc., ONE OF THE MOTHERS. June 17, 1936.