UNOFFICIAL STRIKES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 1, 27 September 1943, Page 5

UNOFFICIAL STRIKES

Governmnt May Act (British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, September 24. Replying in the manpower debate in the House of Commons, the Minister of National Service, Mr. Revin, dealt first with unofficial strikes, one class of which, he said, was organized for political reasons, and it was this type that the Government was considering dealing with. Referring to the home guards, Mr. Bevin said that the amount of time required to be given by home guards had been reduced and the Government was looking into that matter still further. But they were not out of the wood yet. When certain events took place the home guards must be available because perhaps almost the whole regular. Army might be out of the country; Discussing the need for further labour for the aircraft industry, the Minister said the direction of youths to the aircraft industry would be done with the juvenile committees. In putting them iuto the aircraft industry he would have regard for their training and development. “We work on the principle that metal is cheaper than men,” said Mr. Bevin, “and if you can use your men and women in the factories to build up mighty equipment and the most powerful force you can, and by sheer weight of that force shorten this war by a minute or a month, then you will be doing the most humane thing possible to end this holocaust for ever.”