INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS

RATIONING OF EMPLOYMENT. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ! WESTPORT, June 22. ! The decision of the Government to ration full-time employment amongst the registered unemployed in the Dominion by providing approximately- ; 7000 mon with about, four months’ .full-time work a year, was announced •by lhe Hon. P. C. Webb, Acting-Min-ister for Labour this evening. ! •'When the first, group has coin- ' plMed its period of full-time* work, it -.will automatically return io part-time 'work or sustenance, and the second group will then be put on full-time work.” said the Minister. •'•’The Government has made provision for the employment of at least 7000 of the regktcrtd unemployed tor at least four months on full-time work during this year. The men will be drawn from I th.* registered unemployed and will lhe rotated each four months. At the I expiration of that period. Lhe men who 'have been on full-time will go back lon relief, if no other employment is i a vailable, without having to undergo '.he stand-down period. The men as far as possible will be employed through local bodies- doing useful work. Il is the Government’s desire !to take as many men as possible off sustenance on to work of local and national value.” A CORRECTION. The Christchurch ‘Tresis” publishes the following in to-day’s issue: --The name of William Cosgriff was printed in error yesterday morning in the report of Magistrate’s Court proceedings. The charge was that of obtaining money from the Labour Dept; :ment. Unemployment Division. No such charge, nor any other charge, w-.w made against Mr William Cosgriff. The real defendant bore a similar, but not identical name. We much -.aglet the error, and ol'f.-r our apologies io Mr Cosgriff. As rhe'report was reprinted in the “Ptar,” wo also express our regret, and apology.