UNEMPLOYABLES.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17663, 14 August 1929, Page 5

UNEMPLOYABLES.

A CHEERLESS PROSPECT.

PAINTED BY AIR. RUSFIWORTH

WHAT OF THE FUTURE?

(By Te’egraph.—Own Correspondent.) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Aug. 14. Much concern was expressed by Air Rushworth (Bay of Islands) in the House last night, when he "touched on the problem of 'unemployment, regarded not from the standpoint of dealing with those at present out of work, but rather that of providing avenues of employment for boys and girls leaving school. What to do for our boys 4ind girls was, he declared, the big problem. No one in th e House knew better than he what a really unemployable person was like. He had studied the question in London, and had seen genuine unemployables who reminded him of creatures out of Dante’s Inferno. They w<fre a travesty on human beings. Air Semple: Made by the State. Air Rushworth said a generation of unemployed meant the production of unemployables. When a lad on leaving school had been two or three yeais without work be became unemployable, and the prospect was not encouraging. Hope sprang eternal in the human breast, however, and he wag still hoping; he did want to see this problem tackled in a serious way. He was afraid the Government’s cup was filling up, and unless it tackled the main problem in a serious,and determined manner it would have a very short life.