THE WRONG DEPARTMENT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13773, 10 May 1915, Page 4

THE WRONG DEPARTMENT.

IThe concluding paragraph of the monthly report of the local representative (.f fche Department of Labour, which will be found in another column, refers to a class of applicant for employment with whom the Labour Department should not be concerned unjder circumstances. Under the heading of "Unskilled labour" the report records a very considerable falling oft in the number of callers- seeking employment, and it goes on to say: "Witiiout exception those who have sought assistance have been strangers to +,ha city, the majority being single men without dependents." One naturally venders why such men, if they are of sound physique, should be seeking

tho good offices of tho Labour Depart* ment v now I|O secure them civil employment .when their King and country need them iv another capacity. Singh* men without dependents are the class to whom an urgent appeal is daily directed to bear a part in the galla. t work in which thousands of their fellow-countrymen are offering their lives on ihe other side of the world.