CANADIAN MANPOWER
INCREASINGLY HEAVY DEMANDS WARTIME CONTROLS CUT DEEP Ottawa, Feb. 12. The war is making increasingly heavy demands on Canadian manpower. The Army, Navy and Air Force active service programmes this year call for additional enlistments of from 173,000 to to 193,000. Active service enlistments to date number 422,000. At the close of 1941, 600,000 workers, of whom 75.000 were women, were engaged directly or indirectly in war industries. Another 100.000 are expected to be added by the end of the year. Industry’s demand for professional engineers, according to the Wartime Bureau of Technical Personnel, is running approximately one thousand ahead of supply. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics industrial employment index, seasonally corrected, stood at 164.8 in December with the 1926 average as 100. The gross value of all commodities to be produced on Canadian farms in 1942 is estimated at 1,375.000.000 dollars compared with 1,259,000.000 in 1940. Wartime controls are cutting deeper into Canadian life. Motorists break- 1 ing gasoline rationing regulations are made liable for a maximum penalty of 5.000 dollars or five years’ imprisonment. Sugar was rationed at three quarters of a pound a week. The new order reduces the industrial use of sugar by 20 per cent. No longer can bread, cakes or pies be iced or dusted with sugar.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 18 February 1942, Page 5
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