THE CALL FOR MEN
A VITAL PROBLEM OF THE WAR
SUCCESS MEANS CERTAIN VICTORY.
(DNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRISat.) (AUSTRALI4N-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 16, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 15th January. Speaking in the House of Commons on | the Man Power Bill, Sir Auckland Geddes, Director of National Service, said : Our enemies are staking everything on our failure to solve the man-power problem, a successful solution of which meant certain victory.' Much had already been accomplished. The National Service Ministry in December filled 37,000 vacancies with men and 36,000 with women. The co-operation of the Trade Committee and trade unions was of the greatest value in, assisting substitution.
The Army had established seven centres for discharged soldiers, at which the Ministry was establishing Employment Exchanges to enable the discharged men to engage in work of national importance, and also to bring back to civilian life men of low medical categories, who were not immediately wanted for the Army..
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 14, 16 January 1918, Page 8
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THE CALL FOR MEN
Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 14, 16 January 1918, Page 8
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