From ‘The Industrial Reserve’, The Spectator, 12 June 1915:
The Industrial Reserve (227 Strand, W.C.), which was started eight weeks ago, and has already placed over nine hundred men in useful employment, directly or indirectly concerned with war work. These men are for the most part drawn from classes who do not ordinarily come into the labour market. Many of them are middle-class men normally engaged in business or professions who have lost their work through the dis- organization caused by the war, but who, being useful with their hands, are able to take on skilled or semi- skilled work in munition factories. Many others are retired artisans who have saved money and were, until the war began, living upon their savings. Men of these classes, as soon as they heard of the Industrial Reserve, came forward and volunteered to help.
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