COMPULSORY LABOUR IN BRITAIN: FIRST DIRECTIONS
[N.Z.P.A. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT] LONDON, February 4.
Reporting to the House of Commons the size of his catch in the first cast of his net after those he called “butterflies and eels,” the Minister of Labour (Mr George Isaacs) said that the first registration of men between 18 and 25 and unmarried women between 18 and ■2l, who are “not gainfully employed,” yielded 2776 men and 11,908 women.
The figure for men is regarded as low, and it is thought that the real “spivs” and those who have any reason for fearing that they might be put to some work they don’t want to do, have presumably ignored the law. Other registration figures given by Mr Isaacs showed that football pools, amusement arcades, bookmakers’ offices, totalisators, and night clubs yielded 34,317. Of these, 5342 were outside the age of the Control of Engagement Order. Barrow boys, buskers, and street photographers numbered 13,174. In the last quarter of 1947 only 12 men and three women were directed to work.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1948, Page 5
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