VOLUNTARY MILITARY CAMPS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1931, Page 10

VOLUNTARY MILITARY CAMPS

A proposal which'met with a'mixed reception from the Unemployment Committee yesterday was contained in a letter from the Christehuteh Citizens' IJclief Committee, which suggested that all fit men without dependants between the ages of 18 and 32 be given military training in voluntary camps, with the aid of the Defence Department, with the object of partially solving the maintenance problem. Mr. Cornwell said that this was against tho former resolution, the recommendations of which had been placed before tho Govemimcnt, that single men be drafted into camp at Trentham under discipline and given work in tho locality. Ho would not support military training camps as a solution of the unemployment difficulty. Brigadier Gray, of the Salvation Army, remarked that apparently no sooner were the military camps done away with than they were to be reinstated. The other members of the committee, while dubious of the value of tho experiement as a relief measure, saw little against the military training part of tho proposals. On the suggestion of the chairman (Mr. Goldsmith), it was decided that this should form one of the matters for discussion at' a general meeting of the Unemployment Committee to be held shortly.