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Employment directories. national and divisional webs with exchange information. publicity channels. local committees of assistance. all linked with employer and employee. dot the map of the economic battlefields. Training areas for women. girls. and juveniles were set up with success. The effort to get rid of surplus laborers by oversea immigration proved a pitiful fiasco and it is sufficient to say that it forms a sorrowful chapter in the entire story. Briefly. however. it was the Empire Settlement Act of 1922 which projected the 15year plan to settle British subjects in the Dominion with the National Government to pay a half of the costs. Transplanted men. with habits and training unresponsive to new surroundings. found discouragement and tribulation. and the failure was due principally to this absence of prior agricultural training.