LABOUR EXCHANGES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3195, 22 May 1909, Page 5

LABOUR EXCHANGES.

MR CHURCHILL'S SCHEME. WHAT IT AIMS AT. United Press Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received May 21. 9.15 p.m. LONDON, May 21. Mr Winston Churchill's idea is that the Board of Trade shall control the labour exchanges with a view to making the system a national uniform one. Great importance is attached to the advisory committees. and it is hoped that the labour exchange will become an industrial centre or labour market in each town. It is suggested that the Board of Trade should meet there, and the meeting rooms be let to Trade Unions at a reasonable rent, the Trade Unions to co-operate for mutual information. It is intended that the labour exchanges shall offer facilities for washing and mending elo'.hes, and providing non-alcoholic refreshments. Separate provision will be made for men and wcrren and skilled and unskilled labour. One section of the Board of Trade will act as an Intelligence Bureau, and watch the changes in the labour market at Home and abroad, and act as a counterpoise to the unregulated movement of that market and deal with the schemes of public utility set on foot by the Government. The newspapers welcome the as a good economic scheme, calculated to mitigate social evils. Some newspapers urge employers to utilise the exchanges; to fill vacancies in their staff?. Others emphasise the importance of the Trade Unions heartily assisting and stress is laid on the fact that Britain is tardily following the example of her industrial rivals. Received May 21, 10 p.m. LONL'ON, May 21. In the House of Commons, yesterday, Mr Churchill introduced the Labour Exchanges Bill. The only opponent was Mr Havelock Wilson (Liberal-Labour M.P.). He objected to the Bill on the ground that the.Mercantile Marine offices, which were the sailors' forrm of labour exchanges, under the Board of Trade, had proved an absolute failure, merely encouraging the engagement of cheap Chinese labour.