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...said Abraham Fishgold. "Emphatically, yes," said the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans. "Absolutely, yes." said Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. "Definitely, no," said Fishgold's own union (C.I.O.'s Marine & Shipbuilding Workers), supported by the rest of labor. It was an issue loaded with dynamite for postwar labor relations...
...very simple. Abraham Fishgold, 28, got back his job as a welder after being honorably discharged from the Army. But later, men had to be laid off at Brooklyn's Sullivan Dry Dock & Repair Corp. And Fishgold was one of them, because his seniority- including time in the service-was less than that of old hands...
Last week, ripe for a showdown, New York's Selective Service Director, Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, demanded that the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn start proceedings to get Fishgold his job on a permanent basis. He snorted that local draft boards "are certainly not going to defer able-bodied young men under 30 upon the theory that they are irreplaceable when, at the same time, the shipyard in which they are employed is. denying work to equally skilled men who are honorably-discharged veterans because of lack of union seniority...