BRITISH WORKLESS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 7

BRITISH WORKLESS.

'A LABOTJTI ; DEPARTMENT.

p.v TELEGRAPH —PRESS Assbcii'rioN—cbpriliGini: (Rxc. May IS, 10 p.m.) ; London, May 18'. ' tfhb Central Unemployed Body of Britain has recbnimendKl the erection of a Stata Departmbnt tb organist laboUf exchanged. .System Of exchanges/ body. to is probably the Central. Unemployed Committee for London, which was cohstitutbd ,tb; superintend, .aria' fio-ordinate the actibii of the local distress coinniittecs iii the City of London , arid the, Mfctfopoiitari Boroughs, to fcollect inforiiiatibn, and ti) establish) '.take .over,. or - assist labour . bureaux -or employment exchanges; It controls & cbntral fund .oohsisting of (1) .voluntary contributions,' (2) a rale of not iuore thanid. (or with'consent of,the Local Government -'Board,' Id.) levied onthe Metropolitan. Boroughs. The Central Committee has established 25 ' Employment ■ Exchanges in different parts M London, with'.a Central l Exohange serving as a clearing houso for, the test) ana as'.a .centre of communication with, provincial labour bureaux. Bitch local exchange obrisists, of rtri bffice,wliete workpeople l can registef ,theif '.age, address, qualifications, etc.,' and employers .may notify' their lrieiltS.- Thi§ side bf.the.wbrk iS qUitd separbte frerii the work'.bf belief thrbltgh committees. There are _ also fbiif- ■laboui' buredtii in Lpndbn arid 22 m the.pfovinceS hot affiliated to the Exchange. : 1 i x .!■' >