Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...have papers proving that every citizen of the Soviet Republic who is not a military conscript is an industrial conscript...
...placing an embargo on Soviet lumber and pulp wood imported into this country because of the rumors of conscript labor, the United States is again assuming the attitude of dictating world ethics. However, due to the vagueness of the reports from Russia, one may wonder whether the Government's motives are as pure as they supposedly were in the Liberia scandal...