RAISING AGE LIMIT.
MEASURE' AGAINST STRIKERS. (Ree. 12.2.5) WASHINGTON, June 24. Mr Roosevelt has announced that he intends to ask Congress to raise the age of. non-combatant military service under the Selective Service Act to 05 years' as a means of \ meeting any future threat to the interruption of work in plants and mine establishments owned or operated by tile Government. Mr Roosevelt said that before the United Mineworkers’ Association’s leaders had ordered the miners back to work the Government had taken steps to instal machinery for induction into the armed services of all miners subject to the Selective Service Act who absented themselves without just cause from work in the mines under Government operation.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 218, 25 June 1943, Page 4
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