NATIONAL SERVICE
PROGRESS OP THE BILL
A PLEDGE AGAINST COMPULSION.
.LONDON, 22nd February. In the House of Commons, Sir George Cave (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 non-essen-tial trades, but would limit the amount of labour in them. The Government could not, and would 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 new labour would bo forbidden.
Mr. P. A. Molteno moved .that the House decline a Bill empowering industrial conscription. He said that tha Government's pledge ought to be embodied in the Bill.
Sir George Cave; consented to an amendment, and the motion was 1 withdrawn, and the Bill read a second time.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 5
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