ALL UNEMPLOYED MEN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 9

ALL UNEMPLOYED MEN

UNIVERSAL APPEAL PLACEMENT SCHEME This week, there has been sent to the SfiO district offices of the employment division of the Labour Department, a supply of circulars for distribution to all the registered unemployed —and to any non-registered men who may apply —inviting those who have not yet enrolled under the placement scheme to do so and thereby participate in its benefits.

Accompanying the circular was a form upon which the applicant for work was asked to supply essential information, the necessity for absolute accuracy regarding these details being stressed.

This appeal should, to a certain extent, provide data concerning the desire of many unemployed men to exchange their present existence as recipients of relief for a life of activity and usefulness at normal rates of pay. It is beyond question that the men’s best interests will be served if they arc re-absorbed into industry, even if the private work provided consists merely of periods of temporary employment, because eventually, as by this means a man regains lus skill, his chances of a permanency are considerably increased. APPLICANTS TOO MODEST, In many cases it has been found that in reply to inquiries regarding their trade or occupation, some men omit to state the one in which they were originally trained. It is most

essential that this informal ion should be given. The main purpose of the circular is to offer 1o every unemployed man in the Dominion the whole of the resources available through the 22 placement officers. This offer means that all enrolled men, no matter where they' live nor what kind of work they are qualified for, will be on exactly the. same footing so far as opportunities for employment are concerned. The men in the baekbloeks can be almost as quickly reached by local officers as the men in the suburbs or cities.