CANADIAN MAN POWER

Evening Star, Issue 24288, 1 September 1942, Page 4

CANADIAN MAN POWER

(Bee. 11.20 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 31. The Minister of Labour (Mr Mitchell) announced that the Government intends completely to- mobilise man power, and has ordered the compulsory employment of all persons ( capable of working who are at present unemployed or are not working full time. _ In future no employer may dismiss a worker and no worker may leave his job without seven days’ notice in writing. All employers must report their future labour needs to employment and selective service officers, hiring their employees only through the Government employment service. DEFRAUDING THE GOVERNMENT INDICTMENTS IN AMERICA (Rec. 10.33 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 31. The Justice Department has announced a grand jury indictment of two dismissed War Production Board officials, (Robert Rhoads and Ralph Glaser, and three used machine tools dealers on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government and interfering with the prosecution of the war. It is alleged that Bhoads and Glaser sold an option on machine tools at a personal profit of 30,000 dollars and agreed not to make a freezing order against the tools or report their existence. Glaser was hired, by the British Purchasing Commission as technical adviser on the procurement of machine tools. "THE PAST IS BEAD" MARSHAL RETAIN SPEAKS / LONDON, August 30. Addressing the French Legion at Clermont-Ferrand, Marshal Petain said : “ There are many, under a cloak of patriotism, striving for revolt. We are encountering many difficulties. Too many Frenchmen look back hankering for the old regime. But the past is dead. My Government, with its chief. M. Laval, will pursue accomplishment of the national revolution.” NEHRU'S HOUSE SEARCHED DISTURBANCE AT BOMBAY LONDON, August 30. Police last night searched Pandit Nehru’s house at Allahabad for four hours and seized a quantity of books apd papers. The police at Bombay made several arrests when crowds hoisted Congress flags. Bowdy elements stoned buses, trams, and other vehicles. NOT YET WINNING WARNING OF U.S. SUPPLIES CHIEF (Roc. 8.30 a.m.) August 31. General Somervell, Supplies Chief, writing in the September issue of the magazine, ‘ Factory Management,’ warns industry that it must forget peacetime rivalry, but must not forget we are losing the war, and will continue to lose until the home front is unselfishly united with every thought and action in the same spirit which inspires our soldiers dying on the battlefront. BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY OUTPUT BONUS FOR MINERS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 30. The Government has accepted proposals for an output bonus in the mining industry. The object of the scheme is to give additional remuneration to workers whenever the monthly output of saleable coal in their districts exceeds the standard output for that district by at least 1 per cent. The bonuses will range from 3d to 3s 9d per shift.