A DIFFICULT PROBLEM
! Facing the Mayor at the present time is a rather difficult problem arising out; of the war. A number of aliens, many of them with British wives, have been thrown oiifc bf employment because of theit? nationality. As they have been deemed harmless they havo not been segregated, but that has not improved their position. Private employers do not want them, ahd the Corporation ' would probably experience trouble with its other workmen if it put them on, so that they can obtain work nowhere. At the same time they and their families have' to live, and they can do bO only by obtaining relief from the War Distress Funds. To continue relief payments when many of the men, Could be at work would be unwise, but there is n<j other alternative unless the Government, which is the only body able to deal ■with the matter, takes some action with a view to putting the men to work where they will not bo the cause of unrest. .
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 150, 22 December 1914, Page 3
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A DIFFICULT PROBLEM
Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 150, 22 December 1914, Page 3
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