TRAINING FOR INDUSTRY
SIR,—It was recently disclosed by the House of Commons Committee on Public Accounts that large numbers of workers were still being trained for the building industry when it was well known that building schemes had been cut. We should like to suggest that the time has come when it would pay the country more thoroughly to co-ordinate its training methods. My min company recently opened a large factory at Newcastle for the ; production of plastics with a large potential export demand. Staffing . problems presented and still do present a major difficulty, and we are ourselves having to undertake the complete training of all new employees. This has taken time and thereby lost us valuable foreign currency.
Under present conditions the flow of labour is closely controlled, and it should be comparatively simple also to forecast the relative needs of various industries and firms. Is it not possible to establish a planning • board to co-ordinate, in respect of training, the needs of industry with the workers available ? This could cover not only the immediate present, but could accurately judge the probable requirements of the labour market some time ahead. Such a board might result in considerable saving to industry and help in solving our economic problems. I feel sure that leading industrialists would be only too happy to co-operate with the Ministry of Labour in founding a plan along these lines.—Yours Director, De La Rue Insulation, Ltd.
Imperial House, 84 Regent Street, W. 1.
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