MANPOWER CONTROL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1943, Page 6

MANPOWER CONTROL

NEW MEASURES IN CANADA. POWERS OF COMPULSORY TRANSFER EXTENDED. OTTAWA, July 3. A further order controlling manpower has been issued by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. Humphrey Mitchell. Like its two predecessors it is applicable to men who are within the age groups liable for compulsory military service and to youths of 16 to 18 years of age. Under its provisions seven classes of occupation are added to those from which men may be compulsorily transferred to occupations of higher war priority. They are: (1) Large groups of wholesalers; (2) rais-| ing special livestock > like racehorses, dogs and cats and other pets; (3) flower growing; (4) horticultural services except tree surgery; (5) leather curing, finishing, embossing and japanning; (6) brewing; (7) manufacturing fur goods, robes, dressing gowns, neckties, scarves, curtains, draperies and household furniture (except mattresses and bed springs), rattan and willowware, cigar boxes, toilet preparations, handbags and small leather goods. “Over 24,000 men have been interviewed under the earlier orders and many have already been transferred to higher priority work,” the Minister stated. No employer may continue 10 engage men who are covered by an Order in employments listed beyond July 15 unless he has a special permit from the National Selective Service. Clarifying the manpower statistics, Mr Mitchell in the Canadian House of Commons said that in 1940 the registration of men in the classes liable for military service numbered 1,043,163. On Maj' 13, 1943, this total was less 54,688 who were in the process of being called up, leaving a net manpower pool or This pool he divided as follows: —Gone to the Armed Forces, 350,692; men unfit,, 257,105; men whose training was postponed, 100,973; men in officers’ training courses and auxiliary units. 5,776; statutory exceptions such as firemen and policemen and men unaccounted for, 67,674.