ARMY OF 11,000,000
MANPOWER IN AMERICA (Received June 15, noon) WASHINGTON, June 14 The United States will have 11,000,000 men in the armed forces by the end of 1943 and possibly more in the first six months of next year, the chief of the United States War Manpower Commission, Mr McNutt, told the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives. The number will include 1,700,000 to be added in the next six months. Munitions and industrial employees now number 10,000,000. The figure, said Mr McNutt, must increase to 11,300,000 in the next 12 months. Two and a half million civilian industrial workers will transfer to the armed forces and munitions, while over 1,000,000 housewives, students, older workers, etc., will be drawn into the war effort.. The total national labour force will reach a record level of 65,400,000.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22064, 15 June 1943, Page 3
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