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Show Women and Children Fill In Manpower Gap (j m WHEN Johnny went marching off to war, mother, dad, sister and little brother were left to carry on the work of production on the home front on the farms, in the factories, shipyards, and all the ramifications rami-fications of business. Throughout the United States and Canada the folks back home are happy to take over jobs, which were foreign to them before the war began. In Canada, for example, we find that 5,100,000 men and women out of a total of 8,720,000 almost 60 aged 14 years and over, are in the armed forces or working. Just recently a government order was issued whereby all men who are not fit for fighting service ; will be called for vital civilian jobs to fill in gaps in the production program. This has been necessary because Canada has 722,000 men in the armed services ser-vices To meet the labor shortage caused by enlistment, enlist-ment, men and women have been diverted from low to high priority industries, according to their skills and physical strength. Controls were tightened recently to the extent, where subject to certain conditions, no employer can take any person into employment without first consulting con-sulting local National Selective Service officials. A farther order gives the government authority for the compulsory transfer of persons to more essential jobs, covering single men 19 to 40 years of age and married men 19 to 25 years of age the classes designated desig-nated under the call-up regulations. Indicative of how conditions have changed on the home front, is the group of illustrations above showing show-ing a typical Canadian farm family with dad explaining explain-ing to junior some of the intricacies of farm machinery; ma-chinery; his -first experience in operating a tractor, while mother helps with the milking in addition to her regular household duties. " fj "4' g '. if I ' t;' S - cJ ' -ft ' , I - ' L m t ET. ,'. i, ' -...-..-,:,.-.,r,-.....ffr,il.1 f,;,,,,,-; , -M ,.i w |