WORKERS’ TRANSFER

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 9

WORKERS’ TRANSFER

, _ BRITISH BOARD APPOINTED TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR UNEMPLOYED Rugby, January 6. It is announced that the Minister of Labour has appointed an Fndustrial Transference Board, consisting l of Sir Warren Fisher, Sir John Cadman, and Sir David 'Shackleton, “to facilitate the transfer of workers, particularly miners, for whom opportunities of emplovmeut in their own district or occupation are no longer available.” In announcing recently in the House of Commons the decision of the Government to appoint such a Commission, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, said the sole object would be to stimulate and assist the transfer of workers from distressed areas to openings in other areas and industries, both at Home and overseas. He said that the Minister of Labour would define the distressed areas, and Commission.. would, through the machinery of the Labour Ministry, attempt to find jobs for the unemployed. Distressed areas were not confined to coal, but the worst of them were in Durham, Northumberland. on the North-east Coast, and m South Wales in the coal, iron, steel, and other heavy industries. When it was necessarv, a worker being transferred would be assisted financially with railway fares and moving expenses. Discussion would be necessarv with the Overseas Settlement Committee. It was very likelv that thev would find in future in a Dominion'like Canada, with a great advancing prosperity, that the committee would have a' verv good chance of getting what might be seasonal or permanent employment for a man in Canada. Such* a man might get the certaintv of six months’ work, but he did not want to go out there unless be was sure that he would be permanent in his job. It was worth while considering if he was like that whether he could not have an assurance that when seasonal employment came to an end he would be helned with a return passage —British Official ireless.