TRANSFER OF WORKERS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 July 1928, Page 7

TRANSFER OF WORKERS

COMMENT ON BOA-IWS REPORT

(United Press Association —B.v Electric Telegraph

Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.)

LONDON, July 24

Discussing the report oi the r l ransference- Board the “Daily Telegraph'’ says: “Members of the Transference Board were sot an ardous and thankless task rarnl their proposals did not seem to promise much immediate fruit. Overseas migration offers the natural solution for young men, out -t is checked by high passage rates, _ excessively stringent medical examinations, and restrictions regarding the calling a migrant may adopt. It- is principally the Labour parties in the Dominions which arc responsible for the jcalou-s- contraction of the avenues of entry. Mr Ramsay MacDonald recently said the British Labour Party had changed its on migration, but alas, it finds itself up against some of its own worst faults intensified by Labour parties in the Dominions. Wfe .hopo* tho ronort tv ill not escape tlio notice of Dominion states men.” i “The Times ” says: “What the Transference' Hoard has in mind is that we should practise at -home to- the fullest extent the policy we desire the Dominion also to -adopt. W hen all that can he done at Home- is done there are added poiss'ihilHties of migration overseas. There is no intention of dumping unemplov-albiles in the Dominions, but Britain desires to make it easy for the vigorous, adventurous and self-reliant to" try their fortunes in the younger lands of the Empire. The preference which the Dominions are ready to gue tho Motherland i.n matters of trade might be shown more markedly in matters of migration.”