Word: conscriptive
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...will regain their jobs after a year of training is established. For only men whose jobs are not "temporary" fall under the provisions of the act. Who is to determine what jobs are temporary? Seasonal work which is the nature of many industries can certainly fit this category. The conscript must further show that he is still qualified to hold his former job. This has to be purely arbitrary with the employer. But even if these two qualifications are met, the job still depends on the circumstances of the employer being unchanged so that the reinstatement is not unreasonable...
Most obvious of all is the inadequate provision made for conscript voting. The trainee may vote by absentee ballot if his state allows or he may obtain a one day leave. This is hardly sufficient for most men to reach their homes and return, and it would also involve a great expense. Furthermore, future registration will certainly be curtailed by these rules. In this time when every decision taken will have so profound an effect on our future, an untold number of men are deprived of one of their most sacred liberties and duties because they are "learning to preserve...
...should end with the division of territory which Adolf Hitler has achieved, the situation would be different. Then Germany could put her great, captured industrial plant to work turning out manufactured goods for export. Fed by raw materials from the colonial empires of France and The Netherlands, manned by conscript labor, the workshops of Nazi Europe could offer competition in foreign trade that Britain could scarcely hope to meet. That would be an economic war in which the U.S. also would be in danger of defeat...
Part of this classifying will occur immediately on induction, when the personnel officer assigns the conscript to a post, and part after three months of training. The conscript will be judged on his experience and placed on the basis of this...
Just how much previous military or technical experience will aid the conscript when called to arms is one of the major problems presented by the Selective Service Act. It touches college directly in determining the worth of the Student Defense League's proposed training program...