DRIVE FOR MANPOWER
HEAVY CALLS ON AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES 219.000 MEN AND WOMEN NEEDED Canberra, Sept. 2. In the drive to obtain an additional 219,000 men and women for war purposes the Australian Government expects commerce, banking, finance and insurance to yield 50,000 men, states the Minister of War Organisation and Industry, Mr Dedman. There would be heavy calls on other industries. Of 80.000 women required, 52,000 would have to come from the ranks of women now unoccupied. The Government would appeal to single women and married women without children. If a voluntary response by women was not sufficient compulsion was likely.
Mr Dedman said 20,000 men would come from the retail trade, 10,000 from Government and municipal departments, 10,000 from reorganised essential industries, 5.000 from the gold industry. and 5000 from the building trades.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 3 September 1942, Page 5
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