RELIEF WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 13

RELIEF WORKERS

CHECKING MIGRATIONS

Difficulty- is .being caused for the Unemployment Board's officers, and trouble is. laid up for. themselves by relief workers, who go from one district to another in. search of work. A warning, in^this regard has, .'.been issued by ,the- board. . •■ . ■.'.•.; .'

It-is stated that: ee'rfifying officers find", difficulty ■in placing men who migrate, partly ..because local authorities, hard pressed to provide the finance necessary to.cover the cost of supervision, -transport, and all other I charges other- than wages in connection with scheme 5, passed resolutions stating that 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 states. '' Workers who"ar.e unemployed are therefore warned., against migrating from place to place with the intention of qualifying for relief work." It is suggested that no married un-j employed 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 without having 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 mpn 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." . .-.- ■-,-'■ ;: -.:: ... ,