ourselves to effect transfers. We were appointed in order 
to advise how best to accelerate and intensify the process of 
transfer of labour already going on through individual initiative, 
through the machinery of the employment exchanges, the Govern- 
ment training centres for unemployed adults (both for home and 
overseas), the juvenile unemployment centres and the facilities 
provided for transfer overseas both under the Empire Settlement 
Act, 1922, and by ordinary migration. We have therefore studied 
closely the working of these various agencies and have: already 
made a number of suggestions which have been adopted. Instances 
of these are the opening of new training centres for young men 
in this country at Bristol and Dudley, extensions at similar 
training centres already established, an extension of the scheme 
of juvenile unemployment centres in the mining areas, extensions 
in the training centres for migration overseas at Brandon and 
Claydon, in Kast Anglia, and the provision of additional facilities 
bo assist the movement of unemployed persons, particularly of 
married men, to areas of new employment in this country. 
8. We have accepted as a fact the existence of a problem of surplus 
labour in certain industries, requiring to be dealt with by transfer. 
We have therefore regarded as our immediate business all measures 
which would in any way assist the transfer of workers either in 
this country or overseas, concerning ourselves largely with the 
agencies and the machinery through which such transfers can be 
carried out and the removal of hindrances to transfer. We have 
not excluded from our survey the possible creation, by direct 
intervention in the employment market, of opportunities 
for employment through transfer. At the same time we have felt 
bound to have regard to the settled financial policy of the country 
and to follow the general lines of this policy in reviewing any of 
the more ambitious schemes, involving heavy outlay of money, 
which have been brought to our notice. ’ 
9. Acting upon this view, we have not felt it within our province 
to examine, for example, such matters as the reorganisation of the 
coal and iron and steel trades by amalgamation and grouping, or 
the possibilities of immediately increasing the employing capacity 
of the iron and steel and coal trades (and so reducing the size 
of the ** surplus’) through such aids as a general subsidy to 
those trades or a tariff on imported steel or a bounty on export 
coal. Similarly we have not examined the question of the reversal 
of the present legislation on the permissible hours of employment 
in - the coal industry. We are under no illusions about the 
necessity for a reorganisation from within of the heavy industries; 
it is beginning already and will continue. But it seems 
clear that in its first phases at any rate teorganisation 
means concentration of production in the most economic units, 
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