UNTRAINED IVORKERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1926, Page 4

UNTRAINED IVORKERS.

LONDON, Jan. 28. Air P. A. Best, president of the Asso--1 ciation for Education in Industry and • Commerce, speaking at University Coli lege. London, yesterday, said that the | untrained worker was a blot uixm our I civilisaion—a blot which in no sense j was inevitable in a State such as ours. The. business which failed to- train its ! employees was courting disaster for | itself. He added. i “Any industry which reckons to he paying its way should include the instruction of its employees as an imi portant item of creative expenditure—- . creative, because money wisely spent on education justifies itself many times ' over in increased efficiency, health, and ' good moral. A young employee should not have to depend for his technical instruction on evening classes. Time r should be set apart, by the employer for this during working hours. it is monstrous that a boy should be called up to do two days’ work, one alter the other—that, after lie Ims finished earning bis living during the day he should lie expected to spend is evenings in instruction connected with his trade. I hope the dav will soon come when the State will insist that firms must make up their minds which of t ; wo—or what combination of two—policies they propose to adopt: (a) to pay for having this training done Before persons enter industry at all; or (b) to set aside working hours for it.”