Mass Drafting of Women in Australia
(Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m. SYDNEY, March 7. Three hundred women between the ages of 18 and 35 have been drafted to start work in tho Sydney canneries on Monday. None of the women are gainfully employed and are considered to have little domestic responsibility. It is expected that Australia will apply compulsion to female labour on a wholesale scale within the next few weeks. This first mass drafting has been made to cope with hundreds of tons of peaches which will shortly pour into the canneries. "If the peaches are not processed immediately they will rot,” explained a manpower official. Australia cannot afford such a colossal waste of food.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 56, 8 March 1943, Page 4
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