ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES
DIRECTION OF MAN-POWER THIRTY MEN ALREADY DRAFTED About 30 men have been drafted into essential industries in Dunedin by the district man-power officer (Mr A. J. Haub). Although both employers and men have been willing to co-operate under the scheme, he said, the chief difficulty facing him had been to avoid disrupting businesses. The men already drafted to industries were mainly engineers. It was expected that there would be a considerable number of appeals, but the co-operation of workers and employers in essential industries had been good.
Mr Haub said that the first men' to be directed into industries had been those who had not been in employment when they had registered. When these had all been posted, tradesmen now in employment in non-essential industries, and those men working on their own behalf, would be placed in essential industries where it was considered necessary. " When a man is taken for another industry, the Man-power Office has no wish to create a bottleneck in another business," Mr Haub said. "It is to be hoped that both the employers and the workers drafted will realise that when a man is directed into an essential industry every consideration is given to all concerned."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24896, 21 April 1942, Page 4
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202ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES Otago Daily Times, Issue 24896, 21 April 1942, Page 4
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