a saving knowledge of
that Friend.

CHAPTER XVIII

THE RED TRIANGLE IN THE RECONSTRUCTION

The Y.M.C.A. has a very thorough understanding of
men, and with that sympathy which has
characterised its work throughout has brought to
the National Employment Exchange system an element
which has humanised the movement.

The state of the Labour Market and the condition
of trade after the lapse of the period of
reconstruction following the war will be so
favourable that the physically fit man will
experience little difficulty in securing
employment, but even if that is so we shall, for a
long time, have with us the disabled man, who,
without assistance and guidance, cannot be
suitably placed in industry. We must see an
extension of the good-will and sympathy evinced by
the Y.M.C.A. movement amongst every class in the
community.

The Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labour
are getting up a special department to deal with
the discharged soldier. What the Y.M.C.A.
contributes to this problem is character.--MR. G.
H. ROBERTS, M.P., MINISTER OF LABOUR.

THE question is often asked 'What is going to be done with the Y.M.C.A.
huts after the war?' It is never easy to prophesy with any degree of
certainty, but there can be little doubt that, properly handled, these
huts will be at least as useful after the war as they are now. Their
furniture, which comprises hundreds of billiard tables, thousands of
chairs, tables, stoves, ranges, and so forth, is well fitted for doing
good service after the war. One of these huts planted down in the centre
of some rural community and staffed by voluntary workers, who have
purchased their experience by downright hard service during the war,
should be an inestimable boon. It would break the monotony of country
life; or, being set down in an industrial district of a big town or
city, would help in congenial ways to relieve the tedium of the drab
life of the workers.

The immediate problem is that of the discharged man. Incidentally his
presence in our midst is even now helping us to gain that practical
acquaintance with his needs that will be invaluable in dealing with the
greater problem of demobilisation. Thousands of men are discharged from
the Navy and Army eve