INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 5

INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN

TRAINING OF UNEMPLOYED MEN many to enter arms FACTORIES. I SCHEME APPROVED BY TRADE UNIONS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 19. Forty thousand recruits for semiskilled trades are expected to be ready to enter arms factories within a year under a Government plan to train unemployed from all trades at 22 centres throughout the country. Training will last six months and include draughtsmanship, instrument making and many other engineering and metal trades. Employers will be asked to start similar schemes and the, training may be extended to secondary’ schools and women. ' Trainees will ■ receive allowances supplementary to their unemployment pay, the total leaving about five shillings pocket money after paying lodgings. The scheme will be entirely voluntary. To achieve its end the Government is initiating an intensive recruiting campaign among the unemployed (states a Press Association report). Labour Ministry training centres have been almost entirely changed over Jo engineering instruction and already 8000 men are being taught the basic principles of this important war industry. The scheme has the sanction of the trade unions, which for the duration of the war have waived objection to resultant dilution of labour.