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...Hershey's Black Christmas. Same day Colonel Lewis Sanders, chief of the Selective Service's Re-employment Division, warned a Senate committee that the manpower crisis would be grave between December and February, and that with enough funds the Selective Service could handily handle the whole problem. His chief, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, had made this warning many times, usually while giving the back of his hand to Mr. McNutt...
Birthplace of this program was Washington, but the baby is strictly Minnesota's. Governor Stassen went to the Capital, he explained, in an attempt to get manpower action from Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Draft Boss Major General Lewis B. Hershey. Getting promises but no action, Governor Stassen scribbled an eleven-point plan in a borrowed notebook, telephoned it from his hotel to St. Paul. Said he: "Either we are going to have . . . more women employed ... or we are going to have disorder. That's what we've been having...
...Hedgerow besought the draft board to defer its IAs because of their importance: Morgan Smedley, "in charge of the ushering, parking and patrolling staff"; David Metcalf, "an institution builder"; George Ebeling, "importantly placed on the direction committee." They got nowhere. Hedgerow wrote to Major General Hershey. It appealed to Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission. It implored Eleanor Roosevelt to do something. They still got nowhere...
...this merely deepens the gloom which has enveloped the whole manpower program. That issue has provoked a first-class jurisdictional battle which rages through Washington. The Department of Labor, the War Labor Board, and General Hershey's Selective Service Headquarters have been bickering ever since Pearl Harbor. Paul McNutt and his Manpower Commission sit idly on the sidelines, eager to go in as substitutes but lacking authority from the head coach. The fireside chat does not unravel this tangle. Still unanswered is the central question: Who is to decide when what workers go where...
...carry out his threat: local boards may now "consider anew the classification" of a registrant who "is not supporting or is adversely affecting the war effort." But like most phases of the draft, its use to enforce work-or-fight rulings is surrounded by confusion. Major General Lewis B. Hershey, national Selective Service director, said last week that he was opposed to .using the draft as a weapon against strikes "at present"-but he did not interfere in Mobile and he suggested using the draft to keep farm hands on the job. Local boards, he said, will have to solve...