Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep every essential worker at his job, 3) move workers from their homes to sections where labor shortages are acute, 4) forbid employers to dismiss essential workers, 5) force employers to hire through Government agencies. The U.S. bill is slightly milder, but Government officials admit that it will give McNutt "distributory control over the labor supply" and "power to freeze labor...
...alarm over a manpower shortage, said: "Materials are the only limiting factor on American war production." Sidney Hillman, labor half of the late Knudsenhillman, announcing his retirement from Government service, proudly reassured the country that his farsighted 1940-41 training program had obviated the danger. But Paul V. McNutt, whose job as manpower tsar makes him one of the big five in the President's war council, knows differently and has figures to back...
Already since Pearl Harbor war workers have grown to 5,600,000. The armed forces have taken perhaps 2,000,000 more. Another 5,000,000 will be needed in war plants by year's end, precipitating the crisis McNutt expects to face in October...
...Negro problem, McNutt admitted, is far from licked. Employers had better get set for a big increase in pressure for jobs for Negroes. There are approximately 1,000,000 able-bodied Negroes in war-industry areas who are either unemployed or in civilian industries. USES has been directed to reject all applications for additional employes from companies discriminating against them or any other group. Many employers as a result have refused to deal with USES, have resorted to "at-the-gate" hiring. But eventually, says McNutt, they will have to submit to USES conditions, because USES will have most...
...pressing problem is the local unemployment situation in New York City, caused by declining civilian-goods industries, by the great number of small plants (average 19 workers per shop) and by lack of substitute war industries. There are currently 400,000 jobless, and the number promises to grow larger. McNutt is pessimistic about the chances of doing anything much about the New York situation, because the Army is reluctant to place important war contracts in an area so vulnerable. A peculiar feature of the situation is that serious labor shortages exist in Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey...