WAR WORKS ARMY
FORMATION IN AUSTRALIA.
CALL ON THIRTY THOUSAND MEN.
(Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, May 21.
Thirty thousand men will be mobilised within the next few months in Australia’s new war works army called the Civilian Construction Corps. Thousands of workers are already serving with the corps in all parts of Australia.
Most of the new draft will bevcalled up compulsorily from the 45 to 55 age group, but it was announced that suitable volunteers between the ages of 18 and 60 will also be,accepted. Under the direction of the Allied Works Council, the corps is building aerodromes, roads, railways, docks, dams, stores and munitions factories. No combined Federal and Slates public works programme ever attempted the same vast amount of construction which is controlled by a council with Mr E. G. Theodore as director-general.
The council allots vital construction, jobs in. order of priority to works authorities and private contractors whose plants and organisations have been co-opted in the scheme. Labour from the Civilian Construction Corps as well, as plant and materials are provided by the council. A census of constructional plant has been made throughout Australia and it is being called up as required. Members of the corps will be paid award rates, payment being made for wet weather and similar interruptions. The men will receive one week’s leave, plus travelling time to their homes, in each year of service. They are also entitled to nine public holidays in each year—work on those days will be paid at penalty rates. The greater part of the corps will be labourers, who will be enrolled from all occupations. Tradesmen, such as carpenters and plumbers, will be paid award rates for work done in their own trades.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 3
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