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BRITONS WORK FOR WAR

(Rec. noon.) RUGBY, April 30. Of 33,000.000 Britons of between 14 and 64, the Minister of National Service, Mr. Ernest Bevin, told the Scottish Trade Union Congress, nearly 23,000.000 were in full-time service or employment for the country. Ten million women were married or engaged in household duties and there were 9,000.000 children under 14 to be looked after. Two and a half million women were in full-time national employment. Including people above the callingup ages who were working voluntarily, the population engaged in national employment was nearly 25,000,000. Over 90 per cent, of single women between the ages of 18 and 40 were engaged in the war effort. Altogether over 1,000,000 more people were in munitions production than at the end of the last war. Britain alone had outpaced Germany in aircraft production.—B.O.W.

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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5

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BRITONS WORK FOR WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5

BRITONS WORK FOR WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5