0 an order to join a military organization:
1 an order for a group of soldiers to become active in a military operation:
Building materials were costly or unavailable and labour, given the call-up, was also lacking.
But simply refusing to respond to the call-up is not, in itself, necessarily indicative of anything more than a desire for selfpreservation, as understandable as that desire might be.
As presumably agricultural labourers will be exempt in the event of an emergency, could he not do something to prevent their call-up now?
What it did not do was to give them power to enforce in this country their call-up.
Could he not arrange for a special re-examination nearer to the time of call-up?
In the last war several by-elections were fought in which people stood as candidates on call-up issues.
That is the result of the severe call-up.
He was referring particularly to the new call-up of women between 46 and 51 years of age.
