Foreign News: Labor Draft

Last week the No. 1 British trade union ist, Minister of Labor Ernest ("Big Ernie") Bevin, ordered all British males aged 41 or 42 and not already actively defending their country to register on April 5 for labor service (others up to 45 will register later). On April 19 British females aged 20 (girls of 21 will also follow) must do the same. To speed up the process of getting more people to work in munitions factories, shipyards, mines and upon repair of bombed areas, Laborite Bevin urged that 100,000 young women volunteer at...

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