DEPRESSED INDUSTRIES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 July 1928, Page 5

DEPRESSED INDUSTRIES

BRITAIN’S PROBLEM. RELIEF BY MIGRATION. DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY. United Press Association Bv Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received 11.20 p.m. to-day. LONDON, July 23.

“We cannot see how the heavy industries can give all those, at present attached to them, or who look to them, a livelihood in the next few years,” declared Sir Warren Fisher, Sir John Cadman ami Sir David Shackleton, in the Industrial Transference Board’s report, which estimates that there are two hundred thousand unemployed in miners’, one 'hundred thousand in the shipbuilding and iron" steel heavy industries.

The report affirms that these must remain nation’s economic backbone and recommends the permanent removal of men from the depressed industries areas to elsewhere where- the prospects are more favourable. There are chances of the absorption of large numbers of productive workers, overseas. Firstrate material Is available and the realisation of the facts and a display oi goodwill will turn them to account. It is essentia! with .regard to the appeals, that there should beta practical application thereof, especially with relation to older men. It is a matter for regret and as toms Ument h'ow disappointingly slow is the rate of settlement of Britons m Australia and Canada,, notwithstanding the Empire .Settlement Act. Even if it were the case, which it is obviously not, that these two Dominions had reached their limit of absorptive power, it is to be noted that Canada last year absorbed 82,000 Continental Europeans and ■Australia. 21,000 non-Britons. Empire settlement needs to be put into, a really effective force and it will bring a cumulative gain to the Dominions and go far to solve Britain ’.s /special problem, llie present complications and restrictions discourage potential settlers" and a radical ,simplification of it is imperative. Hassa.ce rates should be reduced to nearer the pre-war figures. Even then some- would be unable to find the monej for clothes, tickets etc. - Such a need should be met within the next tne >e \Ye' doubt if the Commonwealth and the States appreciate how /adverse) v the inclination to migrate to Australia has been affected by the frequent .sudden changes in requisitions, also the varying conditions introduced by .schemes which lack uniformity. The bulk of the migration a-s through, voluntary societies. There ii® need of a period of stability. People > cannot be brought to believe the Dominions smuously want them if they are confronted with a formidable tangle of procedures. The report- also advocated that there chculd be sustenance of famines while the older men a,re training m Bnitaim for the life oversea®,