MR LLOYO GEORGES PLANS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14293, 23 December 1916, Page 5

MR LLOYO GEORGES PLANS.

NATIONAL WAR SERVICE.

DETAILS OF THE SCHEME

NON-ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES TO ■ GO.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

_. _ London, Dec. 21. Ihe ' Daily Chronicle," m outlining the scopo of the National War Service scheme, says it is of the holdest and most lar-reaching character. Men between 17 and 56 muse place themselves at the disposal of the State for the duration of the war and consent to be transferredfrom their occupations and located where their services are mast required.

It is essential that the State must have the power to control the direct mobility of labour. There is no guarlnee at present that a man released from the army for agricultural work will return to the land. The Government proposes that full trade union wS be paid to war workers, in addition to •a subsistence allowance of 2s 6d a dov ii men are transferred, necessitating the maintaining of two homes' ° .A schedule of indispensable and noressontial industries-will be shut doW without compunction in order that la bour may be available for munition and productive industries. StimiS txm of the mobility of labour h™£ portant, as adding to the quantity of out ?ut It is estimated that 40 pZ cent of war workers at any mvdn time are idle owing to lack of mobility C tions, will be the transferring of batches to places where workers are urgSv required. He will have tfie pS to billet war workers in private *We S -It is important that trade union it-.,, Cllamberlam's work ; following the analogy of Lord , Derby's recruiting scheme, a short W "Hi be allowed for voluntary enrolment of war workers. If the necS sary men are not forthcoming the GocoTpS r ;^S al to Prf— t t.; 2™ ltlon Purposes. This will not, Tht hGi' etail su PP]y for three years The trade expect a Government deforJ?\h n 5 G ? roJ ibiti«n question betore the end of the year. tD,ra^ tic limitation of the sale ,t a cohol «ill probably be imposed ff pro f hibition is not introduced." P The AVar Office has released 19 OfK) mmens unfit for general service, f™ have returned to the mines.; "