CALL FOR MORE MEN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2918, 2 November 1916, Page 5

CALL FOR MORE MEN

IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES INSISTENT PRESENT SYSTEM - UNDER ■ CRITICISM instraliau-Ncw Zealand Cable Association,. London, October 31. The Army authorities are increasingly insistent that more men _ should come forward for winter training and renewed operations in the spring. The military authorities demand young men. They do not favour tho raising of the age limit. It is estimatedthat. there are three and a half million ; men, under forty, who are not serving in the munition works and "badged trades," which are nationally essential, and are employing many thousands. Tile exemption of scores of thousands by the tribunals has created dissatis-" faction amongst many members of tho tribunals. The exemption by one another's employees and by the Govern-. ment Departments is setting a bad, ■ - example. Ministers exempted thousands of young clerks as being mdis'- i pensable. The newspapers are urging drastic reforms. It is suggested that the num- ■ ber of "badged" trades should be re3uced, and the. tribunals reconstruct-, ed; that all the exemptions'should be revised, and that the Army should take all men under twenty-six, or alterna- : tively raise the age to forty-five, em-1 ploying the older men for defence, against invasion, thus releasing the. present Home army for foreign service. .' • ENEMY BADLY IN NEED OF MEN : HIGH WAGES TO BRIBE SWISS MECHANICS. (Rec. November 1, 8.35 p.m.) Berne, October 31. ; There are signs that the .German.: munition factories aro badly in need'' of men. German agents aro trying' to induce Swiss mechanics to emigrate,' offering high wages. ■ These are usual- 1 ly refused, 'owing to the stories of liun-, ger and misery in the German, industrial centres- ' THE DEARTH OF FARM LABOUR FARMERS BETWEEN TWO OPPOS-' - ING DEPARTMENTS. (Rec. November 1,. 8.35 p.m.) . London, October 31. .The Associated Chambers of_ Agri-i culture have adopted a resolution to; the effect that there would be a disastrous shortage of wheat and other es* sential foods if the farms were further, / depleted of their skilled labour. Captain Bathurst says: "If it is tor' be the Government's policy to import, food, with all tho attendant subma-: rine risks, at tremendous cost, well and good, hut the Board' of Agriculture ought not to exhort farmers to' grow more wheat when another powerful Department is doing its best to render this impossible. Men required for the Army could be found by combing out the Government Departments, and munitions works." ALLEGED PREJUDICE TO RECRUITING' EX-M.P. IN TROUBLE. ' (Rec. November 1, 8.35 p.m.) London, October 31J an ex-member of tile : ' House of Commons, has been summon- > ed.for publishing pamphlets alleged to ' . be prejudicial to recruiting. ' These were headed: "What are we fighting for? Why don't wc make peace?" , The case is proceeding.