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Leader of the workers' holiday was rash, 30-year-old Harold J. Gibson (married, childless, draft classification 26), president of Seattle's Aero Mechanics' District Council. At week's end, A.F. of L. International officers cracked down on Gibson, warned that there must be no further work stoppage. At week's start the crisis passed. Instead of round-the-clock mass meetings, only a dozen officers of the district governing council sat around a table in Seattle's old Labor Temple. Loudspeakers in the Boeing plants broadcast union warnings to workers to stay...
Confusion multiplied last week, and politics lent a hand to stir the confusion. The House Military Affairs Committee launched a bill forbidding induction of heads of families until all single men, all childless married men in each respective state had been called. A rider forbade induction by occupational groups, played hob with McNutt's plan to force nonessential workers into war industries...
Already, the New York Herald Tribune found, four New York City draft boards had all but exhausted their supply of childless married men. Seven boards had just begun to draft the married. Nineteen expected to begin late this month or in March. Soon, throughout the nation, the fathers of children would be taken from their jobs and sent...
...draft of childless married men, already started by many boards, will then become general. (Included in this category are men with children born more than nine months after Pearl Harbor...
...years. In 1940 the philosopher's appointment to the College of the City of New York was revoked after outraged parents called attention to such old Russell saws as, "I am sure that university life would be better, both intellectually and morally, if most university students had temporary childless marriages." Russell's more recent boot was delivered by Philadelphia's Dr. Albert C. Barnes, whose foul temper is as famed as his gallery of Cézannes, Matisses, Renoirs and Picassos (TIME...