IDLE YOUTHS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 10

IDLE YOUTHS

A DIFFICULT POSITION

NO PROGRESS MADE

The scheme outlined by the Boy Employment Committee at its last meeting to endeavour to. obtain the assistance of the Government to subsidise employers- to enable them to absorb tho older boys, who arc at present the most difficult to place, has in the meantime got no further, apparently because the existing legislation does not include boys under 20. '

Tho sub-committee set up to deal with the matter, said the chairman (Mr. K. H. Nimmo) had interviewed Mr. W. Bromlej-j deputy chairman of the s Unemployment Board, and had found him most sympathetic, but he had. pointed out that the absorption of the older boys by such a scheme was not at present possible, as they were not included in -the legislation affecting the position.

Mr. Myers pointed out-that there wore plenty of people who would take on tho youths, but could not afford to unless they were subsidised.

Tho chairman said that-air.-Bromley had been fully alive to the danger of v subsidy being exploited. He had, in fact, pointed out ■ that it might tend to displace boys now employed in order to take advantage of a subsidy.

The chairman expressed the thanks of the sub-committre for the attention ami assistance given them by Mr. Bromley, who had very full informa'ion on the matter.