National Labour Service

• What was the National Labour Service (RAD)?


  used unemployed men between the ages of 18 to 25 to build government funded motorways, hospital, schools, and other public buildings
• What did the RAD make compulsory to do in 1935?


  all young men to serve 6 months in the military
• Why was the RAD unpopular?


  Workers lived in camps, had poor food and working conditions