“WORK OR FIGHT” BILL
CALL ON U.S. MAN-POWER FROM 18 TO 65 YEARS (10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. Senato-- Austin has introduced a “work or fight” bill, drafting all manpower between 18 and 65 years and lowering the military age to 18. Men deferred from military service .- and those between 45 and 65 years # will be liable for service in war production or as agricultural workers. The man-power commissioner, Mr. Paul McNutt, announced another plan which is intended to increase man-power for war production, by which students may enrol in high school “victory corps” for assignment to places in the war effort. * The War Labour Board adopted the principle of “equal pay for equal work” for women employed in war industries, in a decision involving a company at Providence. The board pointed out that in calling American women' to assume a \ital role in the industrial front the country had an obligation to provide the utmost assurance that they are not subject to discriminatory treatment in compensation.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20900, 28 September 1942, Page 3
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