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THE Select Committee on National Expenditure has from the start taken a wide view of its functions, as an admirable series of reports testifies. Appointed to examine the current expenditure on the war services “and to report on what, if any, economies consistent with the execution of the policy decided by the Government may be effected therein”, with its team of subcommittees, the Committee has constituted itself a body for keeping Government departments up to scratch in many matters which have only an indirect bearing on the war effort. None of the reports yet issued by the Committee more fairly earns the thanks of the nation than the third and fourth reports, recently published, both of which discuss questions of man-power and production. That in its third report the Select Committee should have found it necessary to recapitulate at length the experience in regard to the relation between industrial output and hours of work, is the more disquieting in view of the seriousness of the man-power situation. The warning, it will be recalled, had already been given in a report issued by the Home Office early in the War, on hours of employment of women and young persons in factories, and in a later report prepared by the British Association for Labour Legislation.
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Scientific Utilization of Resources and Man-Power. Nature 147, 365–367 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147365a0
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