BRITISH MANPOWER SHORTAGE
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INCREASED PRODUCTION ONLY SOLUTION
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Received Friday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 10. The shortage of manpower will continne m Britain for some very considerahle time, said Mr. Godfrey Ince, Permanent Secretary to the Minister of Labour, addressing the Institute of Motor Industry. He said: "Our manpower has been rnnning down since 1943 and it is going' to continue to run down this year because the Dirthrate fell some years ago." He was not in a position to disclose the 1947 manpower budget, but could say that 1947 was going to be a period of acute shortage of manpower. We had in 1939 417,000 young men reaching the aga of 18; the number in 1946 was 335,000 and the number in 1950 would be 295,000. That was a very serious matter. Moreover, with the raising of the school leaving age industry in ten years time would have only half the juveniles it had today. There was no solution to the present diflicuities except through increased production, but he was not a pessimist. He helieved we should get through quicker than many people believed possihle.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 January 1947, Page 5
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