RE-ARMAMENT LEAVES TRAIL OF LABOUR SHORTAGE BEHIND IT
LONDON, Oct. 26.—The “DailyMair’ says the Labour Minister, Mr George Isaacs, said in London last night that the greatest problem arising out of Britain’s rearmament was the shortage of manpower, particularly of skilled workers. A certain amount of labour would have to be diverted from civilian production, he said. Mr Isaacs, who was addressing the National Joint Labour Advisory Council. said that even by absorbing large numbers of unemployed, recruiting more foreign workers and attracting more married women into industry, It would still be impossible to obtain the 250,000 extra workers needed, when the rearmament programme reached its peak in 1952. Semi-skilled labour would have to be up-graded and training facilities for skilled work expanded, Mr Isaacs said. As an immediate measure the council agreed that arrangements should be made for recruiting more parttime women workers.—Special JNZPA Correspondent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 28 October 1950, Page 5
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