Board: to Transfer Workers. to.
More Favourable Conditions London, Jan. 6.
It is announced that the-Minister of Labour has appointed an Industrial Transference Board, consisting of Sir Warren Fisher, Sit Tohn Cadman, and Sie David Shack leton, to facilitate the transfer of, workers, particularly miners, for whom opportunities of employment. are no longer available in their-own district oF occupation, In announcing recently in the House of Commons the decision of the Government to appoint such a commission; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, said that the sole object woutd- be to stimulate and assist the transfer of workers both home and overseas. He said that the Minister of Labour would define the distressed areas and the commission would, through the machinery of the Labour Ministry, attempt. to find jobs for the unemployed. 'The distressed areas wore not confined to coal, but the worst of them were in' Durham and Northumberland on the north coast and in. South Wales in the coal, fron, steel and: other heavy indus-'When it was necessary, the being transferred would b assisted financially with railw fares and moving expenses. cussion would be necessary with the Overseas Settlement Committee, It was very likely they would find in the future that in a Dominion like Canada, with its grent advancing prosperity, the committee would have a very good chance of getting what might be seasonal or permanent employment for a man, Such a man might get a certainty of six mantis work but did not want to go out there unless he was sure he Would be. permanent in his job. Tt was worth while. considering in a ease like that whether he could not have an assurance that when his sonable employment came to an ynd ho would be helped with a re~ turn passage Mr. Crutchley, the financial adviser to the Overseas Settlement Committee, left. London for Canada to-day to meet Mr. L, S, Amery, Seoretary for the Dominions, who will shortly conclude his tour of the Empire with an important conference with the Canadian Govern-tment on the question of immigra tion. Tt is understood that a. fa Teaching scheme will form the basis of negotiations between Mr. Amery and the Canadian authorities. British Wireless through Reuter.
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