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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

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LABOUR SHORTAGE

SERIOUS SITUATION

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IN BRITAIN

INDUSTRY'S

·PLIGHT

The shortage of skilled labour throughout Great Britain, to which reference was recently made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Com- mons, is rousing grave alarm in many of the country's greatest industrial centres.

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At present the shortage is most serious in the engineering and alled trades, where almost every branch of the Industry in ex- periencing a dearth of skilled workpeople. The building and textile industrica

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JUNE 27,

1935.

FIVE KING'S CUPS

RACING PIGEONS

POPULAR

By W. H. OSMAN

If the man in the street were to be asked in which spart · Ave. King's cups were competed for each year it is unlikely that he would be able to furnish the ane- wer. Racing pigeon fanciers are proud of the fact that the King has honoured their sport by such a handsome tribute, and also that he is a regular competitor in the principal events of the year.

It is estimated that between now

and September 10,000,000 pigeons! will travel on British ratiwnys.

Are

At Die prosent time there no fewer than 1,000,000 young | birds being reared from whom their breeders hope to secure 1 good percentage

future of champions. Every year pigeon fanciers can compete for well over half a million pounds.

Jife.

The fascination of the sport is universal. It attracts such great sportsmen as Lord Lonsdale, Mr. J. B. Joel, and Sir William Jury, and in its ranks numbers ad- herents in all stations of Racehorse trainers such as J. L Jarvis, jockeys such as Gordon Richards and his brother Clifford, Rugby football internationals, pro- fessional footballers, well-known trade such losses will have to be cricketers like Georre Duckworth, faced by both parties.

the wicket-keeper, High Court jud- ges like Mr. Justice Rigby Swift are among those keenly interested in the keeping, training, and racing of pigeons,

Employment exchanges in the PUT two cupfuls of honey into a Midlands are being besieged by Iargo jug with the juice of firms for skilled workpeople who three lemons, and stir in sufficient available; local now water to give it the desired con- papers are carrying hundreds of sistency. Keep the jug in a cool advertisements for vacant pagi-place until required, when half a tions which cannot be filled; in glass of the syrup and a flavouring some centres, industrialists are of fruit juice should be mixed with borrowing labour from areas far soda water, outside their own towns. This supplies their immediate needs, but further nggravates the general problem for others,

Fears are expressed that unleas The sume story is told in almost Immediate steps are taken to pro- every engineering centre of im- duce some kind of unified polleyportance in the Midlands and for the problem as a whole, some North. In Sheffield, 34,000 men of Britain's most important In-are unemployed, including 6,000 on dustries will soon be unable to short time, but many industries undertake the volume of work are lacking the skilled workpeople which is required to be done, and they require. consequently will suffer heavy damage.

ENGINEERING

Added to the interest of training and getting pigeons fit for racing (and in most cases each compe- titor is his own trainer) there is also the fascination of endeavour- In the words of the Chancelloring to breed champions. Success- of the Exchequer: "The great ful breeders bave different dimculty of the employer is not thoda. There are the inbreeders to find work for the unemployed, who pair together close relatives. but to find the unemployed with There are line breeders who only the qualifications to do the workmate together birds that have which is there for them to do."

Sudden expansion of any one trade which required a quantity of skilled Inbour would create in soluble difficulties.

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common ancestors, and there are cross-breedera who pair together birds. that are not in any way related.

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Includes: My Kid's a Crooner, La Cucaracha, Panama, etc.,

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Includes: Blue Moon, Sing as Wo Go, No ! No! A Thousand Times No, Okay Toots, La Cucaracha, When My Ship comes in, etc., atc.

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OUR BRITISH

Across

10 Dolly, how? (anng.). 6 A. gentleman of colour. 9 The Scandinavian who makes

Annie grow.

10 Shaken out of a towel?

11 Where praise is necessary, but not without a general calling to

12

l-known dramatist.

18 Only partly erect.

16 Your bed is daily.

It is often asked how the win-18

Girl's name (poor girl!),

These days come in November

and December, when fires going.

for a retainer,

CROSSWORDS

A more imposing name for a type of setter, but it certainly has a way with it.. 114 Priest

15 it's simply disgusting, this action.

of a mutineer.

16 A scoundrel who has cream tine,

but is not, necessarily, a milk-

man.

17 Lift the shade, and sec

slippery customer.

19

the

This king didn't like children. 21 Mixed.

23 Where one has not only a good

are

24

The situation within the en- gineering trade is viewed with apprehension, particularly in view of the Government's programme for increasing the size of the Royal Air Force. The motor manufac turing industry, which has much in common with aeronautical con- struction, is, in many parts of the country, employing every skilled

13 The general explanation givenner of a race is decided. It should man that can be found. In is that the state of the engineer- be understood that the birds are Coventry and Darby, two of the ing industry during the past ten all sent together in charge of biggest centres, the margin be-years has discouraged. parents trained experts called convoyers, 20 After teatime the girl returns

the and upon arrival at the race poluta The one quality of any line, tween requirement and supply no from placing their sons in longer exists.

trade; that many skilled workmen it may be 60 or 600 miles away and that the recent contraction of were killed during the Great War;are al released together. industry has led firms to employ bird is ringed by the

Before being, sent to the race each and prepare for employment, the committee with minimum number of apprentices.

a rubber race ring and is then placed. In the The increased

race baskets, which are of IRC

sealed, plicated machinery to do the work Upon its arrival at its home this An authority in Coventry has of many craftsmen has lost in-rubber ring is removed from its stated that with the greatest difdustry the skilled men capable of log and placed in a special record. nuity to more than 200 additional producing and working the same ing clock which shows the hour, men could be found in the sur-machines. rounding area for employment in the motor industry.

The ominous question is, there- fore, being asked: where will the great number of skilled workmen who are necessary for the Govern- ment's construction programme be found?

com-

In places, not only is there a shortage, but for certain types of There are still thousands with-work men no longer exist who are out work, but they lack the essen- capable of carrying it out. tial qualifications for skilled; manufacturing of motor engines and similar work. The highly-

Beyond

TRANSFERS NO REMEDY

transferring

spure

marking

race

minute, and second of its arrival.

The distance from the point to each individual loft is known, so that it is possible to calculate the average speed in yards a minute at which the bird has flown, and the bird making the highest speed, or velocity, as

Akilled operator of the complicat-labour from one area to another it is called, is the winner of the

ráce,

ed machinery which has come into few industrialists appear to have being in recent years is also lack taken any steps towards producing ing. Men cannot be found either a solution to the problem. Most pigeons is not a great one; for The cost of keeping a team of to set up the machinery or to industrial centres are work it.

supplied although, having regard to their with their training colleges, and a bulk, birds cat a great deal, this schemes for the training of ap1oz. per day, which means that few firms have sound and useful amounts to a maximum of only

prentices,

It is further painted out that two years at least would be re- quired to train men for any such work as aeroplane manufacturing;

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cach bird will cost about 2d, or 3d.

and that it will take between five the engineering industry a

But the general unpopularity of per week for feeding. The entry

a fees for the races are not high.. and seven years to supply the re-remunerative career, during recent quisite number of young crafts years, has prevented full use being men, who have been properly made of these facilities. Their Arcus can be of little practical trained from youth upward,

full U80 cannot now benefit assistance.

FACING LOSSES

industry for some time.

Where men have been employed It is generally agreed that as in skilled craftsmanship in those Preparation of this character only minute percentage of areas, they have probably done no would probably involve financial Britain's 2,000,000 unemployed are active work for five or ten yearn loss for both the firm responsible qualified for the vacant positions, They are unsuited for the more and the employee. It is felt, how, transfer of labour in large complicated tasks. In age, they ever, that in the present state of quantities from the Depressed have passed their prime,

SALESMAN SAM

24 Good advice.

20 Sweet singers who lacked neither

wisdom nor charm.

27

Lawrence and Turner, for example. 30 In this country the lalty leave no

room for the clergy. 31 You'll fad it just outside the house; it only has a short start, and there's plenty of time, any

32 When an undergraduate has heen, he will keep earlier hours. 33 Gives action to a name of distinction, and proof of rightful possession (hyphen 5-4).

Down

1 The reverso of a nip.

2 A rudimentary form of life. 3 Gave up-or way.

4 Composer of Chinese origin.

5 River of German origin.

6 Destroyed, as the children of

Israel did the Egyptians.

7 This is most annoying..

wist, but has something to twist,

Naughty children to upset poar

pussy just for a game.

25 It may talk of equal nonsense.

29 Wales (anag.).

29 Merely the fragment of a shred,

but it supplies a clus.

Yesterday's Bolation. IMPAIR H ASYLUM; NR ORE ADOTTA CHORUS A DRYDEN LDERROR

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