TRANSFER OF MEN FROM DEPRESSED AREAS PROCEEDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 9

TRANSFER OF MEN FROM DEPRESSED AREAS PROCEEDS.

MR BALDWIN APPEALS TO ALL EMPLOYERS. {United Press Assn.- By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received August 21, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON’, August 20. Mr Baldwin, in a letter, urges each employer to offer employment to as many men and boys as possible. He declares that employers who have taken on some of them say that they are willing and capable. The Ministry of Labour adds: “The hardships that are befalling men from the depressed areas, who start on a vague individual search for work, can be alleviated if the transfers are carried out through employment exchanges, which will advance travelling expenses and the cost of removing and effects, and provide separate maintenance for the families for short periods.” Mr Baldwin has taken an important step in the hope of relieving unemployment. The Ministry of Labour announces that employment exchanges are dispatching to some 150,000 employers an appeal from the Prime Minister that each should help to solve the problem created by the severe unemployment in the depressed mining areas by offering work to men and boys from those areas.