CHANGE OF ABODE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 147, 17 March 1933, Page 3

CHANGE OF ABODE

Warning to Unemployed A warning to unemployed persons against transferring their residence to another district unless they are assured of work was issued in an official statement by the Unemployment Board yesterday. It was stated that a number of the. board’s certifying officers had reported that they found difficulty in placing in work men who migrated from one district to another, partly because local authorities, hard pressed to provide the finance necessary to cover the cost of supervision, transport, and all other charges other than wages, in connection with scheme 5, had passed resolutions stating they would be responsible for finding employment only for residents of three, and sometimes six, months’ standing. “While the board holds the view that local bodies have a definite responsibility to assist in every way possible it is not in a position .to force them to provide work,” the board said. “Workers who are unemployed are therefore warned against migrating from place to place with the Intention of qualifying for relief work.” It is suggested that no married unemployed worker should remove his family from one district to another without having communicated with the certifying officer in the place to which he desires to move, and, received his assurance' that it will be possible for him to be placed on relief work pending the time when he obtains a position in ordinary industry. “An unemployed man takes' a considerable risk by going in search of work in the cities and provincial centres, where the congestion of workless men has already become for the authorities a problem of major importance. Unemployed workers ignoring this warning may find themselves in the' position of being unable to obtain relief work.”