TRANSFER OF WORKERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20388, 20 April 1928, Page 7

TRANSFER OF WORKERS

BRITISH BOARD'S REPORT. PROBLEM OF THE MINER (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 18. The Industrial Transference Board is considering a report on its investigations, which have revealed that the most serious problem of the moment is finding work for middle-aged unemployed men, principally in the coalfields, whose cases, it is believed, can only be met by the development of family settlement in Australia and Canada. The migration officer (Mr Manning), m this connection, says that there is at present no Government family scheme in •Australia. The fear exists among the [States that unemployed miners, unless they were trained for other industries, would eventually fall back on coal mining, thus possibly creating unemployment in the Australian mines, consequently it is inadvisable for middle-aged men without capital to migrate, unless they are nominated from the country districts and take a family, who, if wage earning, would enable the parents to establish a footing.—-Australian Press Association.

A previous message stated that the Minister of Labour had appointed an Industrial Transference Board,.' consisting of Sir Warren Fisher, Sir John Cadman, and Sir David Shackleton. “ to facilitate the transfer of workers, particularly miners, for' whom opportunities of employment in their own district or occupation are no longer available.”