TEXTILE WORKERS
EXCHANGE PLAN From the International Wool Secretariat the New Zealand Wool Board has just received the following information. A plan for British and French woollen textile workers to exchange jobs for six months is being considered by the International Wool Textile Organisation-. The idea is that, for a start, 12 to 20 workers from the Bradford area should go to northern French textile towns and work in French mills. They may be joined by others later. They would live as Frenchmen, receive French rates of pay,' and occupy the homes of the French textile workers, who take their places in Yorkshire mills. Six months was decided as the minimum period for the exchange and it is hoped to start the scheme in' January. If the plan is carried out it will be the first exchange of workers between the two countries, and may lend other industries to work out similar schemes. In this way the ordinary workman would learn more of living conditions abroad than any tourist could hope to do.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 63, 16 December 1946, Page 2
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173TEXTILE WORKERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 63, 16 December 1946, Page 2
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