74. Mr. POINTERasked whether, when an unemployed clerk applied at the Brentford Labour Exchange on the 25th April last, he was informed of a vacancy in the London telephone service and was sent with a note or card for the manager of the New Bridge Street Labour Exchange; that when he arrived at the latter Exchange at 11.25 in the morning he was informed that he could not see the manager until after 2.30 in the afternoon; and whether such delay to a person seeking employment and who knows there is a vacancy waiting to be applied for is unavoidable?
Mr. ROBERTSONI understand that two applicants were sent from the Brentford Labour Exchange to the Exchange in New Bridge Street on the date in question to apply for vacancies of the nature referred to. I am informed that after the men had left the Brentford Labour Exchange the employers made an alteration in the time at which they proposed to interview applicants. The applicants were informed not that they could not see the manager of the Exchange till 2.30 p.m., but that that was the hour at which the employers were prepared to interview them.
75. Mr. POINTERasked whether, in connection with a temporary vacancy for a clerk in the London telephone service, there were about 200 persons applied on Friday, 25th April last; whether a large number, if not the whole, of the applicants were sent by the various Labour Exchanges ilk the Metropolis; and whether such a lack of co-ordination between the Exchanges is the usual thing?
Mr. ROBERTSONMy hon. Friend is under a misapprehension. Two hundred vacancies for temporary clerkships in the London telephone service were notified to the City Labour Exchange, and a number of applicants were submitted through this Exchange in the usual manner.