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DESPAIR OF UNEMPLOYED orders, owing to labour troubles, they
EX-OFFICERS.
HARD CASES OF MEN WHO HAVE
SERVED THEIR COUNTRY.
Demobilised officers are still unen- ployed in large numbers all over the country, says the Daily Chronicle. this applying particularly to the older ones and those who have served long periods with the colours.
cannot find work for people like me. The
dustry absorb the ex-officer who know. more work there is the quicker will in-
big joh,***
Another ex-officer, now an organising secretary, said a good deal of the unem ployment among ex-officers is due to the fact that some expect to get fat jobs for which they are not qualified, and expect employers to pay them at their own valu.
In solo casce, married ex-officers tellation.
One who during the war held a high command, was awarded the C.B.E., and had a personal letter" of thanks from" Sir Auckland · Geddes--is going to America in despair.
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of having to live on mengre pensions, and Ales of men returning to their one says he will have to go into the work. | pre-war jobs find that the salary is poti house shortly.
up to their expectations. Sometimes they expect too much, but in other cases the employers are not at ali generous. “I know of employers who have candidly and saltovaly admitted that they have found girla cheaper, and that they are going, to hang on to them for that ronson.** I spoke to-day, wires the Leeds corres "I have been demobilised for months," spondent of the Daily Chronicle, with a said another captain.but I cannot get gentleman who has since left the Service employment. I have answered advertise and who has tried in vain to secure suit-ments and grown weary making call after, able employment. He has now abandon call, but nothing ever turns up. I should, ed the idea, and is leaving the country like a secretarial position, but when I for America next month. For a great part of the war he held a very important command, and afterwards held a temp raty post of great responsibility A Government department.
He holds the highest possible credentials as an organi-every time. ser and business man, and apparently, as
says, he is unemployable.
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apply they tell me they want someone Having been in the Army I wn without with. knowledge of excess profits. hat, knowledge, and am turned down
The Bully Chronicle correspondent's attention was directed to is man in an He showed me to day a personal lester imparter's office. He was a captain, and from the War Office "thanking him for a married man. For weeks he searched services rendered, and adding, There for suitable employment but could not are few people with greater organising find any. Then be adopted the last re ability, more charming manners, greater sources of many hard-pressed men; be tact and drive than yourself" Another joined the rank of dockers and toiled at personal letter from Sir Auckland Geddes loading and discharging cargoes. That warm personal thanks for brought bin to the notice of the firm, who expresse your loyal and devoted co-operation in gave him, more, congenial occupation in very difficult work. Trusting that an their office. In another case an educated opportunity will be given you for the man who possessed specialised qualifica service.
tions, because years which should have l been devoted to attaining them wero spent in the Army, is doing very labor- ious physical work for 4 weekly.
This gentleman received the grateful thanks of the country's representatives and the King bestowed on him'the honour of.BE.
APPOINTMENT DEPARTMENT'S GOOD WOKE.
In conversation, he said, "Three months ago put my name down for employ ment, and I have not heard a word. 3 am a graduate of Cambridge University, but I am not particular what job I tackle nor what the remuneration, but work i must have, I have to make a fresh, start somewhere. I'm tired of the effort, and I'm packing up and leaving the country.
"PROFITEERING" IN EX-OFFICERS.
A Bristol ex-officer told a Daily Chronicle representative that his experi ence suggested there is a tendency in some quarters to exercise a system of almost profiteering in the exigencies of the times. Certain employers seemed think that by employing an ex-oficer they were justified in reducing salary to an unreasonable extent or, in the case of training, asking for a premium. The
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it isn't charity 1 want. If I can't get percentage of unemployel officers in where I cah."
a job on my merits bere, well, 'Bristol is now comparatively small. and
is weekly becoming less.
The Appointments Department of the Ministry of Labour at Nottingham is
NEARLY DRIVEN MAD. finding suitable employment for a fair
Mr. A Dalton Hinchclife, general number of ex-officers, but is meeting with secretary of the Manchester branch of the great difficulty in placing others, parte Officers National Federation, men- cularly in regard to the older men and toned to a Daily Chronicle reprezenta- professional soldiers. The greatest meative several interesting cones of unem sure of success has attended its efforts ployed ex-officers who had for months suitably to train the younger men for tramped the streets and written endless vacancies. "A good many employers have applications for situations, but all to no pathy with the Department's aims; but ships of officers who had been discharged unfortunately they are in a minority, E unft, and had to exist on thefri and cumplaint is made that both the meagre pensions. One Regular Army
OUR PRICE LISTS HAVE NOW BEEN PUBLISHED AND given practical demonstration of sym-purpose. He quoted other cases of hard.
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THESE MAY BE HAD ON APPLICATION AT OUR STORE demobilised officers and the Department ofcer, married, was in receipt of 358. are the victims of public apathy. ... pension, but declared that he would have Ex-officers find long military experience to go into the workhouse by the end of a disadvantage rather than an asset. the month if he were cut of work until Some employers distrust them, and many that time. He had been discharged demand technical experience which they unfit. do not possess. Although the Department has been established in Nottingham near ly 14 months the loent employers are alleged to have failed to utilise their services adequately. I think it why average Britisher's dislike and distrust of Government departments, official to n Daily Chronicle representa
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many of the Federation's out-of-work: Mr. Dalton showed our representative forms, and in nearly all caes the appli cants were willing to accept £2 10% per week, and some even if they could only get work. One oficer applied for a ried, with five children, and 48 years of situation as a caretakers He was mar age, and in addition to the King and Queen's Snarth African medals he had other war decorations. He was in re- ceipt of 18. ad a week pension..
"NOT PLAYING THE GAME"
TRADE UNION BEARS. "When we want to place men in jobs where they will be trained we come up against the trade unions, who fear the employers will continually extend the principle to the detriment of their mem
A letter from an officer who has served bers. We have instances of definite rein the King's (Liverpool) Regiment fusal's of employers because they dare not says: "I have been unemployed since go against the unions. There are a large April. Last Monday, for Enancial rea number of training vacancies in abeyance sons, I commenced work at a labouring. on this account, particularly in the rate. Owing to wounds, 1 have had to engineering trade?"
give this up. I have no parents, and
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Au infantry captain, aged 43, married, dependent on friends, and having and with three children, said to me: kept myself sincs April I find myself in have farmed in South Africa, served with a situation that almost drives me in the Natal Mounted Police, and prospect sanë." " ed for gold I want an outdoor job con- nected with agriculture, with a minimum "salary of £950. I cannot get one, and I have applied for a small holding, but am told I may have to wait 12 months."
Another ex-officer was indignant "My old Srm," he said, "wish me to re turn at half my pre-war salary; they any trade is so bad.
Some companies do not know there has been a war on, commented a former head office insurance clerk. My people have offered me £90, and I am 26,
CHEAPNESS DEMANDED.
A visit to the Sheffield Officers' Club, which has a very large membership of the type of men who have had to find jobs or returning from Service, revealed a fairly satisfactory state of affairs.
playing the game, and Mr. Hinchcliffe In many cases the employers are not pointed out a case where an employer had refused to reinstate a discharged officer, girls having been given the preference.
There are many difficulties in New- ing employment, and men who have been castle and the district in ex-officers secur
unable, wires the correspondent of the demobilised for many months have been Daily Chronicle, to resume civil work.
A prominent citizen tells me this story: "I had two nephews who joined up in 1814 One a learning to be a civil engineer. He saw considerable service as an officer in the Dardanelles and France, and, on being demobilised, was in the Flying Corpa. I got him a temporary appointment, and now he cannot get Mr. H. S. Howe told the Latly employment. His father had paid £100, Chronicle representative that the local for him to serve his articles as a civil branch of the Ministry of Labour had engineer.
done excellent work, though their efforts My other nephew, who is older and were not always successful. Many married, escaped from Germany early in
HALF A CENTURY REPUTATIONS men," he said, have been put in the the war. He joined up, and for a long
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way of employment through their mem-time served in the defences of London. bership of the club; others had to wait He was learning to be a municipal en- several months before being fixed" up-gineer. Finding nothing, in this country
had not been so acute in Sheffield as in farming in America and is doing well," in other towns, largely owing to the exier ence of the club."
A demobilised captain of the East Bur reye has scoured this district for four "On the other hand, I know that em months and failed to get employment. ployers simply have not the jobs to give He has had plenty of offers, saya my to anybody. For that I blame the ex- informant, from sharks, asking him to treme Labour leaders, who are egging men invest his gratuity. A lieutenant in the on to keep production down. If there is Navy, of five years' service, says many more production there will be consequent employers frankly say they prefer female ly more jobs for everybody, but if employ labour, as it is cheaper. He has been ore of big industrial concerns cannot fill offered a wage of £ a week.
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