Sentence examples for conscripted labourers from inspiring English sources

A central Food Production Committee, set up in early 1942, organised the conscripted labourers and attempted to help the white farmers to grow all the crops they could.

Construction of the airfields began in January 1944, and the project involved around 300,000 conscripted Chinese labourers and 75,000 contracted workers.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and conscripted workers laboured on the project.

It was constructed using the labour of thousands of prisoners of war and forcibly conscripted workers used as slave labourers.

One chapter recalls the vast distances that many travelled to help defend France: labourers from China, conscripted colonial troops from Senegal, black "Buffalo soldiers" from America.The making of France's master of mythcraft is the subject of "La Première Guerre de Charles de Gaulle".

Globalisation means that a conscripted child labourer in a Congolese mine is linked to a teenage PlayStation addict in Bethnal Green.

Afterwards, the Japanese developed two airfields (Labuan and Timbalai) on Labuan which were built by labourers who had been conscripted from the Lawas and Terusan regions of mainland Borneo.

Conscription is practiced, and conscripted recruits enter the military for two years.

The Czech workforce was exploited as Nazi-conscripted labour.

Terry Dene, an 18-year-old bicycle messenger, timber-yard labourer and odd-job man in a clock factory, had some months of fame as a pop singer before being conscripted into the army.

He conscripted Mr. Woodland.