USE OF MANPOWER
POLICY AIMS IN BRITAIN, (Itritoh Oftici;<l Wm-less I RUGBY. February 13. The Government is planning the ut-, most economy and efficiency m the use : of manpower, said Lord ?doyne during a debate in the House of Lords, The purpose behind the Government's ! plans, he said, was to ensure that every man of military age would be either in , the forces or doing work of national ; value which could not be done by old-; er men and women. Nineteeii-year' j olds would be called up almost immed- i lately. Those not reserved or whose i call up was not jjostponed would join ! the colours from about mid-Apri! on- ; ward. The present plan was for men ' t<> register in the gr->up from 37 to 40 and leave the iS-sear-old group to !h<* . last. ■ ' | Regarding the wider mobilisMion j ami distribution --f tin* existing labour ! force. Lord Moyne pointed out that ; changes could not be made all at once , It was necessary that industry should ; have time to give voluntary co-opcra- ; tmn in the matter of readjustment I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1941, Page 6
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