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Show HUNS WOULD COMPEL LABOR. Wemen and Girls as Well as Men and Boys to Render a Year of Service. Berlin. Conscription of labor to Increase In-crease production in Germany, a law for which is being drafted, would apply ap-ply to girls and women as well as men and boys, afl of v-hom would be compelled com-pelled to render year of service in mines, factories, on farms, in hospitals, or wherever the state directed. The proposal, credited to Mathias Erzberger, former minister of finance, has become the storm center of a discussion dis-cussion which has run the scale fron invective and threat to ridicule, and now, wiili the law nearing completion, its proponents have made it apparent they will seek with deadly earnestness to force its passage through the reiehs-tag. reiehs-tag. On the other hand, the opponents of the measure, including the powerful Socialist faction, have declared they will oppose the passage with every means at hand and should they fail, will later seek to vitiate the legislation. |