MIGRATION FOR WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 4

MIGRATION FOR WOMEN

;ie . e : , . <■•• GENERAL BOOTH'S SCHEME. Iβ , -.. ■~ ',;■■....■.. Z ' With reference to the problems of rea construction and of the position of women _f when industrial demobilisation causes a glut in th'e labour market, a oorrespon- ■" dent of the "Westminster Gazette" drawa attention .to the work which General n-' Booth has already done towards meeting n- the difficulties. ' Eecogriising that migra--10 tion. was one of the chief avenues of n- escape from serious troubles, General '). Booth • induced the authorities to give ;d substantial support to a scheme he in framed for the after-war emigration of [y women to the overseas dominions', Tho ts machinery for the carrying out of this e- plan, which should form a valuable conid tribution to the solution of the problem r- of the demobilisation of women, is ready af to be set in motion as soon as thediffiig culties with regard to shipping have been es overcome. a- Long before the war, through the Sal■d vation Army system, thousands of Brina tisli women had been enabled to make ie comfortable careens for thoniselves in u . Canada and the other dominions. • The it war,'however, enlarged the sphere of the ; s Army's responsibility. Foreseeing a ij slump in the demand for women workers )r 'wheh' peace was in sight, General Booth IZ made public appeal for ,£203,000 towards >} a project which he' tornied the Women's ,f' Empire Migration Scheme, and <i eum of is now , available. Commissioner D. C- Lamb, the direotor r- of the Salvation-Army Migration Den partment, who is in Canada perfecting 10 the details of the department's organisa•y tion in that dominion, will report on his 11 return on the possibilities for women 1- settlers in Canada. Agents of the ded partment have been making investigui- tions in Australia, Now Zealand, and 10 South Africa with rofcronco to the opera:e tion of the scheme in' these dominions. 1, General Booth's project was devised for W the benefit of widows, whose circmnn stances might be improved by migration, ie but the Army will also be onablod to j. carry on the transference and settlement Ls of einglc women on an extensive scale.