STATE PLACEMENT SERVICE
INCLUSION OF WOMEN POSSIBLE The Minister for Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) is thinking of extending the State placement service to include women, according to a statement he made in an interview on Saturday. Mr Armstrong said the time had arrived when a department should be established to give the benefits of the scheme to unemployed women and to the employers of female labour. The scheme was becoming much better known, Mr Armstrong said, and more use. was being made of it. A similar service was necessary all the time, to provide work in times of unemployment and labour when workers were scarce, and the Minister said he felt sure it would become permanent. _____
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22005, 1 February 1937, Page 16
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