100,000 Britons building camps, airfields for AEF
London, England (UP) –
More than 100,000 British workers have been assigned to construct labor camps and airdromes for American forces in the British Isles, Labor Minister Ernest Bevin revealed today.
Mr. Bevin made the disclosure in a message to British workers, thanking them “for great self-sacrificing effort” in the war-building program. He added, however, that the need for labor is still urgent and said that the transfer of labor to such employment will continue.
Fortress flies to base with 3 motors gone
All 3 Zeros in attack shot down by Americans
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Millett: War regulation violators are business of everyone
Unpatriotic acts will halt if law observing citizens point out disloyal behavior
By Ruth Millett
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Mass meeting on India called at Washington
Independence debate due tonight; Mrs. Pinchot signs announcement
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Bickering ends as Aussies, Americans join in battle
Tested by fire at Milne Bay, men now eager to start large scale New Guinea offensive
By Frank Hewlett, United Press staff writer
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Women ask day shifts except in emergency
Washington (UP) –
Director May Anderson of the Labor Department’s women’s bureau appealed today for employment of women workers on night shifts “only as an emergency measure to prevent overtime on day shifts.”
She said in a report on night work for women workers:
Women workers, speaking from their own experience, object to frequent change of shifts because it upsets their eating and sleeping schedules. Women with family responsibilities find it hard to arrange for the care of their families and children, harder still to get someone to do this.
On the other hand, there is objection to permanent night schedules because the workers seldom get sufficient sleep during the day and health and efficiency are seriously undermined.
The Pittsburgh Press (September 29, 1942)
49 Jap planes down in 4 days
Cruisers, transports hit in Solomons, Aleutians
By Walter Logan, United Press staff writer
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J&L proposes fine as curb on strikers
Plan offered as corrective on irresponsible workers
By Fred W. Perkins, Press Washington correspondent
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Barkley compares Senators’ courage
Congressmen should at least be prepared to sacrifice ‘political lives’ for national welfare, Democratic Leader says in inflation debate
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Marine charges gun nest, uses it to kill more Japs
‘I was just mad,’ Guadalcanal hero explains; major uses rock to ‘bomb’ enemy into open
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500th vessel lost by Allies
But sub toll has dropped steadily in recent weeks
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Aussies gain in drive to push back Japs threatening Moresby
Allied troops use foe’s jungle tactics as planes rake enemy in mountains
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Reds criticized for refusing front studies
Allies could learn valuable lessons for promised western invasion
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Work draft bill is read in Congress
Plan authorizes President to shift men, women where needed
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Gandhi wants U.S. to settle British dispute
‘We Americans must break deadlock,’ Far Eastern expert says
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