BRITISH MAN POWER
THE GOVERNMENT’S AIM ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 13. . The Government is planning the utmost economy and efficiency in the use of man power. The Secretary of State for i the Colonies, Lord Moyne, stated in the House of Lords debate that the purpose behind the Government’s plans was to effect the utmost economy and efficiency in the use of man power, and was to ensure that every man of military ago would be either in the forces or doing work of national value, which could not be done by older men or women. Nineteen-year-olds, those not reserved, or whose call-up was now postponed, would presently join the Colours, from about mid-April onwards. The present plan was for men to register in the group from 37 to 40, and to leave the 18-year-old group to the last. With regard to the wider mobilisation and the distribution of the existing labour force, Lord Moyne pointed out that the changes could not bo made all at once. It was necessary that industry should have time to give voluntary co-operation in the matter of readjustment.
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Evening Star, Issue 23811, 15 February 1941, Page 11
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188BRITISH MAN POWER Evening Star, Issue 23811, 15 February 1941, Page 11
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