Word: conscript
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...French Premier's plan (drafted for the most part by French War Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour) is that France should propose to the great powers Six Conditions. In return for their acceptance France would reduce her conscript "Home Army" from 200,000 to 150,000 men by cutting the term of compulsory military training which young Frenchmen serve from one year to nine months. The Six Conditions, which M. Herriot said he would demand at Geneva...
...That the German Army or Reichswehr, now consisting of 100,000 picked volunteers who must enlist for not less than twelve years, be disbanded and replaced by a conscript army similar to that of France...
...Herriot was understood to say that all volunteer armies-such as the British, U. S. and Russian-must also be remodeled on conscript pattern to satisfy France. Later, after he had won his vote of confidence, the Premier explained that the British and U. S. armies are excepted from his plan which applies to Continental Europe only...
...most arresting proposal the Commission heard last week came from New York's swart little Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia. A War aviator, Representative La Guardia wanted a constitutional amendment to allow a wartime Government to declare a moratorium, nationalize all industry, ration the entire civil population and conscript everyone "from Texas Guinan to J. P. Morgan." Ships, railroads, everything would be taken over without compensation and returned later to their owners without damage payments. Testified this Republican insurgent...
...Conscript Labor. So politically powerful is the A. F. of L. that it compelled Congress to exclude specifically from the W. P. C.'s considerations the question of conscripting labor. Nevertheless this question continued to bob up at the hearings despite the efforts of Chairman Hurley to suppress it by citing the constitutional prohibition against involuntary servitude. What some witnesses could not see was the difference between "military slavery" in the trenches and "industrial slavery" at home. Nevertheless the weight of authoritative testimony was against drafting labor. General MacArthur, speaking for the War Department, opined: "The enforced employment...