MANY INQUIRIES FOR WORK

Southland Times, Issue 23819, 17 May 1939, Page 4

MANY INQUIRIES FOR WORK

REQUESTS TO FIRMS IN AUCKLAND UNEMPLOYMENT BECOMING WORSE (Special to The Times) AUCKLAND, May 16. From regular and persistent inquiries made to them for work employers are of the opinion that unemployment among men is becoming worse in Auckland. Factories are sharing in this inquiry, but manufacturers state that there is nothing to indicate that those who seek employment desire to become skilled workers.

“Not one man among those who have called and asked for jobs has suggested that he wanted to learn the trade,” said a large manufacturer of footwear. “They have been unskilled workers who wanted jobs about the factory.” It was generally stated that the announcements by the Government of the subsidy scheme by which unskilled men from public works and elsewhere could be absorbed into industry had not in any way affected the inquiry for work. It was never mentioned by those who sought employment. “We have had no inquiry from men who, so far as we are aware, have been on No. 13 scheme relief work,” said the head of a factory employing more than 100 adult males. “The impression many convey is that they have been forced out of occupations through the import regulations and most of them ask for positions as travellers or storemen.”