THE DERBY SCHEME.
SINGLE MEN AS SHIRKERS, A CHORUS OF PROTESTS Reee.h'cd Feb. in, 5.5 p.ui. London, Feb. IS. 'J'lii' limine number of trades that arc treated as reserved trades, and tin: overgreat leniency by local tribunals in exempting single men, are threatening to destroy Die success of the Derby scheme. Wholesale postponements have reduced (he yield of the early Derby groups below the War Oiliec'a smallest estimates. Tribunals are now sitting as public courts, ind the reports of interesting eases arc now being published in the newspapers. Tt is hoped that this will bring a change for the, better, as publicity will tend to discourage unnecessary appeals. Out of eight hundred appeals at Wandsworth (iou were allowed. Many married men are writing to the newspapers, complaining that single men are evading their responsibilities, in violation of Mr. Asuuitli's pledge. There are, fourteen thousand appeals in the city, and in most eases the employers state, "If you take these men I close mv business."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19160221.2.22.8
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1916, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
164THE DERBY SCHEME. Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1916, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in