WORLD PROBLEM
UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS i INTERNATIONAL PROPOSAL CANBERRA, July 12. Proposals for tho improvement of the world unemployment situation among youths, of whom 7,000,000 are included in the 25,000,000 unemployed in the world, are being considered by the International Labor Organisation. There are already four international conventions by which the age of admission to industrial and non-industrial employment and employment at sea and in agriculture is fixed at 14 years. It. is hoped to revise these coventions so that the minimum age shall be 15 years, thus making them complementary with the * measures that have been taken in several States to raise the school leaving age to 15 years. In a report received in Canberra t.hc director of tho International Labor Organisation, Mr. Harold Butler, states that the problem of unemployment among voung persons is becoming more acute because, while the war-time fall in the birth rate .relieved the situation by reducing the supply of juvenile labor during the last few years, the effect of the. high post-war birthrate was now be- . ginning to bo felt in the labor market.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 9
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