On This Day, 29 May 1918

Birmingham Mail

Wednesday 29 May 1918

MUNITION WORKERS.

EXPECTED TO VOLUNTEER FOR ANY PART OF THE COUNTRY.

The Government proposes to develop the present scheme under which munition workers are invited to volunteer for war work in any part of the country. All workers in the future will be expected to volunteer, and unreasonable refusal will seriously prejudice the right of any worker to exemption from service in the Army.

The younger men will be preferred and these, it is expected, will make a loyal response to the call. The War Cabinet consider that in the present emergency they must have absolute freedom to divert labour to those parts of the country where it can be most advantageously employed.