FRENCH LABOUR CONSCRIPTION
LONDON, September 14. Under pressure, M. Laval has introduced a new law conscripting all men between the ages of 18 and 50 and unmarried women between 21 and 35 "for work that is necessary in the national interest." British and other foreign residents are also affected. The correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" on the French frontier says that the new law is the most drastic ever passed in France, and is the result of the Germans' failure to induce French workers to go to German factories. Any person whose work is not considered '•useful" can be transferred to other employment. Employers are forbidden to engage workers except through the Government Labour Service, and they must also undertake to form work gangs, presumably for work in Germany. The penalties for infringement are five years1 imprisonment and a fine.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 66, 15 September 1942, Page 5
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140FRENCH LABOUR CONSCRIPTION Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 66, 15 September 1942, Page 5
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