BACHELOR WORKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1934, Page 2

BACHELOR WORKERS

LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT. PREFERENCE TO FATHERS. London, Sept. 3. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: Fifty thousand men and women in Hamburg alone are affected by Herr Hitler’s “fathers before bachelors” order. Although large employers of labour view the scheme with disfavour, small factory owners and retail traders support it, saying: “It will make for more' stability. It is tire young people with no family responsibility who cause all the trouble.”

The young people affected, however, are full of apprehension. It is estimated that at least 2,000,000 will be thrown out of work.

The whole of the German press has been mobilised with a view to popularising the scheme. The newspapers are urging that young men should be a 3 willing to give up their employment as they were to join the army in 1914. Preparations are being made to form labour camps for the unemployed in Berlin. The youths will be paid Is 8d a day, uniforms, lodgings and food being provided. They will build roads and reclaim waste land.

Herr Hitler recently issued a decree whereby all unmarried persons under 25 years of age, employed by private or public firms, or in the German public service, must give place to older persons, particularly those with families.