MEN CALLED UP FOR SERVICE

Southland Times, Issue 24160, 24 June 1940, Page 8

MEN CALLED UP FOR SERVICE

PLEAS FOR EXTENSION OF TIME (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 22. The Wellington Manpower Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr M. F. Luckie, Deputy-Mayor has been faced with some difficulties over pleas from employers for an extension of time for men called up for service. The committee decided yesterday that a stand had to be taken in cases where employers were not doing their part. The committee had before it numerous cases where men who enlisted

three, four, five and even six mpnths ago were now being called up and even at this late stage their employers were putting in pleas for further extensions or relief, because, they said, if took so long to train men to replace them. The committee could not have much sympathy with employers who had n °t taken advantage of the opportunity to train substitutes and would not take serious notice of such pleas where employers had not played their part, said Mr Luckie. The committee considered it the obvious duty of employers to start the training of substitutes as soon as they received notice that the men had been accepted for service. When they had not taken reasonable action the Manpower Committee could not listen with much sympathy to pleas for a further extension of time.