NATIONAL SERVICE IN BRITAIN
BILL IN PARLIAMENT PLEDGE AGAINST FORCED LABOUR (Rec. February 23, 8.15 p.m.) London, February 22. In the House of Commons, . Sir George Cave (the. Home Secretary), speaking to the motion for the second reading of the National Service Bill, said that he did not propose to close down on the non-essential trades, but he would limit the amount of labour. The Government could not, and wou|d not, use any of the powers of the Bill to .introduce industrial compulsion. Men and women must be found for the supply of munitions, otherwise the Army would fail. He was drawing up: ■a schedule of non-essential trades, in which-now labour would be forbidden. Mr. P. A. Molteno moved that the House decline a. Bill empowering industrial conscription. He said that the Government's, pledge ought to bo embodied in the Bill. Sir Georgo Cave consented to an amendment, and the motion was withdrawn, and the Bill read , a second .time.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3012, 24 February 1917, Page 9
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