Canadian Government Controls All Labour

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1942, Page 3

Canadian Government Controls All Labour

Ottawa, Aug. 31. The Minister of Labour, Mr- Mitchell, announced that the Government intends completely to mobilise manpower and has order ed the compulsory employment of all persons capable of working who are at present unemployed or not working full time. In future no employer may dismiss a worker and no worker may leave a jpb without seven days' notice in writing. All employers must report their future labour needs to employment arid selective service officers, hiring their employees only through the Government employment service.

discover new methods of preparing men for unprecedented combat conditions in submarines, planes and tanks. The men must be perfectly attuned in their bodies, a? they are perfectly prepared in their minds and hearts for the fierce test of battle. The extent of the remarkable progress achieved ' in this science can be attested by our enemies who have f aced our men in battle." Pointing out that the, progrecs of prevention and cure milst not be limited to the armed forces because the whole population was involved in winnin'g this total war, President Roosevelt said there were 40,000 fatalities from automobile accidents last year and almost 1,500,000 injured. There were 19,200 fatal accidents in industry and in addition 2,000,000 were injured, including 100,000 permanent disabilities, resulting in a loss of the almost incredible total of 42,000,000 man-days. "Thus it is not only our enemies who kill valuable Americans," the President added. Defeating Tyrants. "It is not going too far to say that any civilians who, through reckle&s driving or failure to take proper safety measures in industrial plants kill or maim their fefiow citizens, are doing injury to our sons and brothers who are fighting this war in uniform," said the President. "Similar injury to the armed forces Is done by pedestrians or workers who through thoughtlessness and carelesspess put themselves in harm's way. Not all can pafticipate -in direct action against our enemies but all can participate in saving our manpower." President Roosevelt concluded with a reference to the third anniversary of Hitler's blitzkrieg against Poland. "Men have died, riations been tortured and enSlaved to satisfy the brutal lust for power ot a few inhuman tyrants — the Germans, Italians and Japanese," ' he said. "To defeat such tyrants, to^ the removal from this earth of the injustices and inequalities which create such tyrants and breed new wars this nation is wholly dedicated."