BACHELOR WORKERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 234, 15 September 1934, Page 5

BACHELOR WORKERS

Loss of Employment

PREFERENCE’ TO FATHERS

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” eays:— Fifty thousand men and women in Hamburg alone are affected by Herr Hitler s "fathers before bachelors” order. Although largo employers of labour view the scheme with disfavour, small factory owners and retail traders support it, saying: "It will make for more stability. It is the young people with no family responsibility who cause all the trouble.”

The young people affected however, are full of apprehension. It is estimated that at least 2,000,000 will bo thrown out of work.

The whole of the German press has been mobilised with a view to popularising the scheme. The newspapers are urging that young men should be as willing to give up their employment as they were to join the army in 1914. Preparations are being made to form labour camps for the unemployed in Berlin Tho youths will be paid 1/8 a day, uniforms, lodgings, and food being provided. They will build roads and reclaim waste land.

Herr Hitler recently issued a decree whereby all unmarried persons under 25 years of age, employed by private or public firms or in the German public service, must give place to older persons, particularly those with families.