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OUR EMPLOYMENT BUREAU STILL BUSY.

27th August 1914
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Another busy week has passed in connection with our Employment Bureau, and large numbers of further names have been sent in by men desirous of securing employment. The outstanding features of the week's records are the continuous stream of applications from private-car chauffeurs, to whom, of course, we can only give attention after we have dealt with the needs of legitimate commercial-vehicle drivers, men who have had experience of our own branch of the industry.

We wish to make it clear that we do not desire to receive any more applications from men who have had no experience whatever of commercial-vehicle condition's. We have quite enough to do to meet the demands of employer and employee who know the requirements for delivery work in all its branches, and who have a proper appreciation of the class of machine which is employed for it. We make an exception in the cases of a certain number of those men who are agreeable to train as omnibus drivers. We have facilities for a certain number of men of this class who have some knowledge of London, and who are not less than 5 ft. 7 ius, in height and not under 25 years or over 30 years of age. We have been enabled to arrange for special facilities for a certain number of men of this class to train and rapidly qualify for a. position as a motorbus driver.

There is still a considerable demand for good steamwagen drivers, and the same conditions obtain as we rgported to be existing last week, viz., that there have n16

been very few steam wagons called up for military service, that those which are still in civilian work are being constantly employed, and that, nevertheless, a considerable proportion of the drivers and mates who are used to those machines have been called up to serve the Colours in one capacity or another. We ask elsewhere that steam-wagon builders should afford increased facilities for the training of suitable men. There appears to be very little reserve of them in this country.

We may add once again a note to the effect that our organization is one of the few which is in no way designed to assist the Government, other than by helping the nation to mind its own business, and to do it effectively. We continue to receive a number of applications from those who desire to serve with the Colours as motor transport drivers, etc. These we have referred to the nearest available recruiting office. Upon inquiry at King's Road, Chelsea, at the end of last week, we were informed that at present sufficient rnen had been secured for all requirements in the mechanic branches of the Service.

In conclusion, we would ask employers to make as much use as possible of the facilities which we arc happy to be able to place before them, in order that they may co-operate in securing employment in their own industry for men who have been temporarily dis. placed rather than that they should lose their jobs on account of imports from other breaches of the motor trade.

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Organisations: Employment Bureau
Locations: London

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