The Archive · 1938

Youth Still Lacks Work

Notwithstanding the recent cheerful review of the Minister for Labour of the employment outlook, there are still some 50,000 unemployed in this State, ud a considerable proportion of these are young men in their early twenties.

To some extent the anxious l we do with our is temporarily solving itself in its cruder aspects.

Labour exchanges cannot supply employers' demands for youths under seventeen and for girls and women for factory employment. but there are relatively few jobs offering for men of 21 and ove Most of the workless in this category: originally made the mistake that is being made now by thousands of boys: they accepted "dead-end' which they naturally lost as they reached the age at w law stipulates the: should be paid the basic wage arbitra ily fixed for adult workers, The Police Department is evolving a scheme for the employment of specially trained dogs to track missing persons and assist in solving crime mysteries. It is proposed to quarter Alsatians at many of the principal stations in rural and suburban centres, The recent success of the police Alsatian, Tess, in finding, in less than an hour, the strangled body of a child for whom 20 constables and over 100 ians had been fruitlessly searching 34 hours, has convinced the ities that dogs would prove

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