Utilization of Man Power

Abstract

THE new appeal for volunteers for training for war work and the emphasis placed on the need for the employment and training of women show that the magnitude of the man-power question is now at last being recognized. Mr. Bevin has indeed, during the time in which he has exercised his immense powers of control over labour and industry, been fully alive to the importance of the human factor. He cannot be accused of being unmindful of the findings of the Industrial Health Research Board, and the stress he has laid in various speeches on the provision of canteens, communal feeding, and the safeguarding of health have indicated his profound concern with the maintenance of morale and health. There is, indeed, no room whatever for doubts as to the Minister of Labour and National Service holding a long-term view of industrial efficiency, and as to his determination to allow no shortsighted views of output and hours of work to impair the physical, mental and moral capacities of the workers on whose endurance, skill and enthusiasm we depend for long-sustained production.