HELPING YOUNG MEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 8

HELPING YOUNG MEN

SUSTENANCE UNWISE

"It will be a great satisfaction to all those actively connected with youth employment and welfare matters that the Government has, though somewhat belatedly, taken decisive and comprehensive measures to ameliorate the grave position which had been reached by a substantial section of the young manhood of the Dominion between the ages of 18 and 25, whose unfortunate plight is no fault of their own, but the direct result of the depression periods, which affected such vital years of their lives, at the most important part of their careers," said Mr. R. H. Nimmo, chairman of the Citizens' Employment Committee, today. "The Minister is to be congratulated on accepting the recommendation' of the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the Citizens' Employment Committee, and the V.M.C.A. It has repeatedly been pointed out by direct representation and through the Press that the payment of sustenance to youths is demoralising, and as far as the majority of the recipients of such sustenance are concerned,> mean a waste of public money.- Now that this money is applied for this purpose, it should be a great incentive to the youths to apply themselves to the arts and crafts available, thereby making themselves more useful and valuable citizens. The Government, the employers' representatives, and the workers' representatives have deme their job, and done it well, and it is now up to the employers to get behind the scheme and avail themselves of this special provision in the interests of the country as a whole."