ARMS MANUFACTURE.
TRAINING OF UNEMPLOYED. , (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 19. Forty thousand recruits for semiskilled trades are expected to be ready to enter arms factories within a year under a,Government plan to train unemployed from all trades at- 22 centres throughout the country. Training will last six months and include draughtsmanship, instrument making and many other engineering and metal trades. Employers will he asked to start similar schemes, and the training may be extended to secondary schools and women. Trainees will receive allowances supplementary to their unemployment pay, the total leaving about five shillings pocket money, after paying lodgings. Tile scheme will be entirely voluntary. To achieve its end the Government is initiating an intensive recruiting campaign among the unemployed. Labour Ministry training centres have been almost entirely changed over to engineering instruction. and already 8000 men are being taught the'basic principles of this important war industry. The scheme hn.s the sanction of the trade unions, which for the duration of the war have waived objection to the resultant dilution of labour.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 71, 21 February 1940, Page 9
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