MIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LV, Issue 37, 11 May 1934, Page 4

MIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

"About migration, the essential thing that recent years have taught us is that it cannot be separated from general economic policy," writes the Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery in the "British Trade Review." "Once the tide of prosperity is set flowing in the. Dominions by giving them assured access to their market, the tide of migration will tend to flow too, and then the valuable machinery of the Overseas Settlement Act and I the great experience gained in its j operation will really work at full pressure and bear its good fruit. There is only one general point that needs repeating and repeating over and over again. That is, that migration is not a policy for dealing with j unemployment, but for developing! the Empire. The first test to apply to any would-be migrant is whether he is going to make good. The more enterprise and capacity he has al-j ready shown, the more he should be encouraged. Unemployment should not be a bar, but should, at any rate, be a serious reason for careful scrutiny, before any public assistance is given to migration. It is for these reasons that by far the most successful form of migration, and the most worth encouraging in future, is that of the type of the £10 passage to Canada, where the migrant receives no direct public assistance, but goes entirely on his own with just this advantage, that State intervention has helped to bridge the ocean for him by lowering the fare."