RESTORING THE RUIN OF WAR
WHY NOT DO IT NOW? NO REAL SCARCITY OP LABOUR London,.. June 24. ino ' Observer's" correspondent at rarie 6ays that the intervention of the United States and the fact that the Russian inactivity threatens to prolong the war between the nations by at 'least n year, has resulted in a movement to commence tho reconstruction of the ruined districts and the economic energies of France without awaiting; tho conclusion of peace. There is no real scarcity of labour in the industrial world, as-44.860 linns are employing 1,470,000 men and women, where they employed 1,522,000 before the war. Agriculture, however, lacks 200.000 men, the mines GO,OOO, while HO,OOO are wanted to repair Iho havoc in the liberated territories; and a hundred thousand nro required for Army work upon roads and railways, making a total deficiency of 400,000. Franco hopes that America will send either labourers or eoldiers, who will enable the demobilisation of "Frenchmen above 45 years of age to be effected.—Aiiß.-N.fi. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3120, 26 June 1917, Page 5
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168RESTORING THE RUIN OF WAR Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3120, 26 June 1917, Page 5
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